Scrollbar thumb not drawn in Firefox 46 and later (gtk3?)

[Joe Barnett]

As of today's firefox 46 release, the scrollbar thumb is not being drawn, just see a thin grey bar on the right side of the window. Probably related to switchover to gtk3. Gtk theme is the ubuntu-gnome default of Adwaita.

See screenshot attached.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: firefox 46.0+build5-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
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BuildID: 20160425114621
Channel: Unavailable
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Wed Apr 27 12:47:31 2016
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
Extensions: extensions.sqlite corrupt or missing
ForcedLayersAccel: False
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SourcePackage: firefox
Themes: extensions.sqlite corrupt or missing
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[Amr Ibrahim (amribrahim1987)]

Yes. I see it in Trusty. Sometimes the scrollbar thumb disappears in Launchpad.net

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Amr Ibrahim (amribrahim1987)]

I think this bug is hardware-related. I have another machine that is not affected.

[Amr Ibrahim (amribrahim1987)]

Do you have GNOME theme installed for Firefox? When I disable it, the bug disappears.

[Joe Barnett (thejoe)]

according to the add-ons panel, I only have installed the 'Default' theme

[Joe Barnett (thejoe)]

actually, installing the gnome theme at least makes the scrollbar appear, even if it looks kinda ugly. see attached screenshot

[Joe Barnett (thejoe)]

actually, installing the gnome theme at least makes the scrollbar appear, even if it looks kinda ugly. see attached screenshot

[ralf tauscher (stereo)]

i installed also the gnome theme... the ugly scroll bar appeared but not in every place where it should be and sometimes it disappeared completely. something is utterly wrong with it. and it seems to be within the adwaita theme, because I dont have this problem under 14.04 only in xenial.

my workaround was downgrading to firefox 45 (gtk2)

[Joe Barnett (thejoe)]

Simlarly, checkboxes and radio buttons are pretty much invisible until activated, should that be a separate bug or handled in this?

[Rob Adams (readams)]

Upstream this is:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1234158

According to:
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/4d6wt1/firefox_on_linux_doesnt_show_scroll_bar_handles/

Arch has this patch in their distro package.

[Amr Ibrahim (amribrahim1987)]

After more investigation, it turns out that there are two different bugs.

One in FF 46 (this exact bug) was about an invisible scroll bar, which got fixed in a later version. The other newer bug started in FF 52, which is currently about a very thin scroll bar that regressed in 52 and later (see the screenshots in bug #1675496).

I have changed the duplicates accordingly.