Firefox scrollbar drawn incorrectly

[Jeff Meister]

Binary package hint: gtk2-engines-gtk-qt

Using these packages:

firefox - 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.4-0ubuntu6.06
gtk2-engines-gtk-qt - 0.60-1.1ubuntu7

Firefox doesn't seem to understand the default KDE style of having an extra Up button at the bottom of the scrollbar and it draws the bar right over that button when you scroll to the bottom. gtk-qt is applying this style anyway, though. Apparently this is fixed in upstream version 0.7, according to the changelog at their site, http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/gtk-qt - "Control Module: add utility to fix Firefox scrollbar buttons."

[Jeff Meister (nanaki)]

Assigned to crimsun at his request.

[Jeff Meister (nanaki)]

I just fixed this myself inadvertently. I tried installing the autopackage of version 0.7 from the developer's site, which installed fine, but actually created another scrollbar drawing bug. The one I describe here was fixed, though, by a simple Firefox profile change. Since 0.7 had another annoying bug, I uninstalled it and reverted back to 0.6... only to find that things are now working perfectly!

Ignoring my little story above, all you have to do is add this stuff to your userContent.css in ~/.mozilla/firefox/[random-string].default/chrome/:

# The following four lines were added by KDE
scrollbarbutton[sbattr="scrollbar-up-top"] { display: -moz-box !important; }
scrollbarbutton[sbattr="scrollbar-down-top"] { display: none !important; }
scrollbarbutton[sbattr="scrollbar-up-bottom"] { display: -moz-box !important; }
scrollbarbutton[sbattr="scrollbar-down-bottom"] { display: -moz-box !important; }

You can customize these lines for your KDE style, but that will fix it to work with the default on Kubuntu (Lipstik). Hooray!

[David Sansome (me-davidsansome)]

So, what was the other scrollbar drawing bug? :)

[Jeff Meister (nanaki)]

The border on the left of the scrolling thumb part lags behind the rest of the thumb when you move it. It will catch up eventually, it just takes a bit to realize that the thumb has moved. Very odd. Obviously a minor thing, but noticable and annoying. ;)

Here's the bug report on their tracker, looks like it's assigned to you too so you probably already know about it. The guy reports that he's using an 0.6 package, but maybe the FC3 guys backported part of 0.7, because I don't experience the problem with Kubuntu's 0.6 version.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5811

[Anthony Mercatante (tonio)]

Latest upstream version includes a fix for firefox scrollbars