I have recently upgraded to Ubuntu 11.10 with GNOME Shell. Everything is okay except the scroll bar, especially in Firefox. It's very, very tiny, especially in long pages!
Also, I don't know why there is a very small gap between scroll bar and border of screen so I can't click on scroll bar without seeing it .
Screenshot:
One can tweak the scrollbars of Firefox assuming that the overlay scrollbars aren't being used.
Unfortunately,if I understand correctly, scrollbars (in Firefox) are "anonymous content". That means one can't tweak them using userChrome.css or userContent.css.
To tweak scrollbars, I use the Stylish extension for Firefox.
After you've installed it, you'll be able to style your scrollbars:
Here's my very simplistic version:
@namespace xul url(http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul);
/*scrollbars*/
scrollbar { -moz-appearance: none !important; background: #777 !important}
scrollbar[orient="vertical"] { width: 7px !important}
scrollbar[orient="horizontal"] { height: 7px !important}
scrollbar thumb {
-moz-appearance: none !important;
-moz-border-radius: 4px !important;
background: maroon !important;
min-width: 8px !important;
max-width: 8px !important;
border: 1px !important;
}
If you go over to the forum for that extension and look around, you'll find more parameters to tweak.
As already pointed out, the length of the vertical scrollbar is usually a function of the length of the web page. There maybe a way to set a minimum length but I haven't looked for that.
