[gentoo-amd64] Firefox scrollbars missing thumb -- workaround that's pretty enough to use even without the bug

[gentoo-amd64] Firefox scrollbars missing thumb -- workaround that's pretty enough to use even without the bug

[Duncan]

This is primarily intended to be a helpful note to anyone dealing with 
the problem where recent firefox, possibly only when built against gtk3, 
loses its scrollbar "thumbs", a problem I was seeing here, with the 
mozilla-built binary[1], but others may find it worthwhile, and 
beautiful, as well.

A google suggests the problem is gtk-3.20-related, as one poster found 
that downgrading to gtk-3.18.x returned his scrollbars.  However, I 
wasn't particularly thrilled at the idea of downgrading so I continued 
googling.

Fortunately there's a rather nice workaround in the form of the 
"NewScrollbars (aka NoiaScrollbars)" extension.  Yes, that's the name, 
including the aka in parentheses.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noiascrollbars/

They're customizable color-gradient scrollbars that as one of the reviews 
says, are "Way better looking than the default."  "Just classes up the 
appearance of the page.  Great useful add on."

Even *more* "useful" and "great" when they avoid a bug in the default, 
but now I'm glad I had the bug as I'd have been unlikely ever to find 
them, otherwise, and they're both rather pretty and customizable enough 
to work with my "reverse" color scheme with light on dark! =:^)

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[1] Mozilla-built binary: Since IMO gentoo seems to be late with updates, 
potentially fatally late, for what's likely the most exposed app on the 
system, so now I get the builds direct from mozilla.  I do understand 
that the gentoo maintainers have to make sure it actually builds on the 
wide range of what gentoo users have installed and that's not always 
exactly simple, but even when the update's available even just a week 
after the upstream release, when that could well be five days vulnerable 
to an active exploit, it counts!  So I'm not exactly happy with the idea, 
but I'm grabbing the binary direct from mozilla now, and letting firefox 
itself handle the updates.  At least that way I get them the day of 
release or so, not generally days after release when I may be already 
exploited if I'm waiting on gentoo.

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