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How do you get the scroll arrows to appear on the right side of the screen?

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JWaters49
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Right now I have to use my mouse arrow to manually scroll up & down. How do I get the arrows back ?

Right now I have to use my mouse arrow to manually scroll up & down. How do I get the arrows back ?

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guigs
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In Preferences > General > Browsing can you please take a screenshot of your settings?

JWaters49
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The screen shot icon is not visible when I am in my Preferences page. But I have 4 browsing options, if that helps? -Auto scrolling -Smooth Scrolling -Always use the cursor keys to navigate within pages -Search for text when you start typing. I have smooth scrolling selected, but auto-scrolling didn't seem to make a difference either

cor-el
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This can happen if you use a GTK 2 Linux theme. Current Firefox version require a GTK 3 compatible theme.

JWaters49
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Is it possible to update to the newer compatible theme?

James
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Not in Firefox but on your Linux distro. GTK3 themes may be available to install in your package manager or you can get them from say https://www.gnome-look.org/browse/cat/135/ord/latest/

The official builds of Firefox since 46.0 have required GTK 3.4 (three.four) at minimum to run and as a result needs GTK3 themes to theme Firefox. Some Linux distros may have delayed this change with their own packaged builds of Firefox until more recently.

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