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I've been looking for a way to get Gnome's overlay scrollbar working in Firefox. By its appearance, it seems like Firefox is using the standard non-overlay GTK scrollbar, but I haven't found a way to get it to use the overlay version as illustrated below:

Gnome overlay scrollbar

I ran across this article with a GTK 2 configuration but despite appearing to attempt to mimic the Gnome appearance, it doesn't seem to work as the scrollbars disappear altogether.

Is there any way to get the overlay scrollbar working in applications like Firefox?

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I doubt you can currently do that for Firefox, Google Chrome, Chromium or LibreOffice. – user25656 Jan 9 '14 at 13:21
    
possible duplicate of How do I enable overlay scrollbars in Firefox? – Mihai Capotă Aug 27 '14 at 9:27
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According to this related question, it appears that the overlay is only compatible with GTK applications, which unfortunately excludes Firefox, Chrome, LibreOffice and others.

In fact, the overlay-scrollbar testcase page specifically lists which applications are compatible.

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