# Making the right edge of Firefox wider? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 16, 2025, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-the-right-edge-of-firefox-wider/1023078 "2025-09-16T05:24:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-the-right-edge-of-firefox-wider/1023078/1 "2025-09-16T05:24:19Z")
The slide bar is really narrow and shrinks even further if the cursor is not hovering. Seems like it used to be wider. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-the-right-edge-of-firefox-wider/1023078/2 "2025-09-16T06:07:16Z")
It’s not doing it on mine, so I can’t test this, but supposedly you can fix it in about:config: 1. Type `about:config` into your address bar and press enter. 2. If necessary, click to say you’ll “Accept the Risk”. 3. search for the this setting: `layout.css.scrollbar-width-thin.disabled` and toggle it to true. You may or may not then need to restart Firefox. ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-the-right-edge-of-firefox-wider/1023078/3 "2025-09-16T07:37:46Z")
You can also set `widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.style` there to [make it mimic different operating systems’ scrollbar styles](https://github.com/WesleyBranton/Custom-Scrollbar/wiki/How-to-enable-wide-scrollbars-on-Firefox): > ``` > 0 is the default value for your computer > 1 is macOS > 2 is Linux > 3 is Android > 4 is Windows 10 > 5 is Windows 11 > > ``` Setting it to `4` makes it look like Windows 10, which should be wider than most modern defaults: [![](https://fightingignorance.org/c589466d-93c9-4d3a-b67e-70268cfc804c-making-the-right-edge-of-firefox-wider-factual-questions-straight-dope-message-board-september-16-12-33-14-am.gif) ](https://fightingignorance.org/c589466d-93c9-4d3a-b67e-70268cfc804c-making-the-right-edge-of-firefox-wider-factual-questions-straight-dope-message-board-september-16-12-33-14-am.gif) And if that’s _still_ not wide enough, you can set `widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.size.override` to something absurd, like `50`, to make it super wide: [![](https://fightingignorance.org/f0a143e4-1e0c-44c0-9253-c1ed92b3d46d-how-to-enable-wide-scrollbars-on-firefox-wesleybrantoncustom-scrollbar-wiki-september-16-12-40-24-am.jpg) ](https://fightingignorance.org/f0a143e4-1e0c-44c0-9253-c1ed92b3d46d-how-to-enable-wide-scrollbars-on-firefox-wesleybrantoncustom-scrollbar-wiki-september-16-12-40-24-am.jpg) That link has more details (again: [How to enable wide scrollbars on Firefox · WesleyBranton/Custom-Scrollbar Wiki · GitHub](https://github.com/WesleyBranton/Custom-Scrollbar/wiki/How-to-enable-wide-scrollbars-on-Firefox)) ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-the-right-edge-of-firefox-wider/1023078/4 "2025-09-16T18:28:46Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > It’s not doing it on mine, so I can’t test this, but supposedly you can fix it in about:config: That didn’t work, in fact I had no scrollbar at all. ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-the-right-edge-of-firefox-wider/1023078/5 "2025-09-16T18:31:21Z")
> [@Reply](#): > > ou can also set `widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.style` there to [make it mimic different operating systems’ scrollbar styles](https://github.com/WesleyBranton/Custom-Scrollbar/wiki/How-to-enable-wide-scrollbars-on-Firefox): This didn’t seem to work either. In Control Panel I set scrollbar to Always On and that did work and is now a wider bar as well. Maybe I had to restart one more time or something. ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-the-right-edge-of-firefox-wider/1023078/6 "2025-09-16T20:12:47Z")
Great. Glad it worked.