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How can I get extra scroll bars in Firefox to read Yahoo mail on a small screen, the way Explorer has?

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ncleeno
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When I read my Yahoo emails on my little Asus eee pc, I have to use Explorer because it has extra scroll bars that allow me to scroll back and forth to see things that there is no room for on the screen. Firefox doesn't have these scroll bars.

When I read my Yahoo emails on my little Asus eee pc, I have to use Explorer because it has extra scroll bars that allow me to scroll back and forth to see things that there is no room for on the screen. Firefox doesn't have these scroll bars.

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Hi ncleeno, I understand that on a small screen you would like to know how to add scrollbars to the page so that you can read parts of the email that are not on the screen.

I have not tried this myself, but I think in about:config: In order to change your Firefox Configuration please do the following steps :

  1. In the Location bar, type about:config and press Enter. The about:config "This might void your warranty!" warning page may appear.
  2. Click I'll be careful, I promise! to continue to the about:config page.
  3. Search for scrollbar and I believe layout.testing.overlay-scrollbars.always-visible set to true would put these on.

dom. disable_window_open_feature.scrollbars is the one that is set to false by default as well that prevents the scrollbars on a popup from being disabled. i am not sure if viewing Yahoo mail is a popup. I do not use it, but I will assume its not.

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guigs
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Hi ncleeno, I understand that on a small screen you would like to know how to add scrollbars to the page so that you can read parts of the email that are not on the screen.

I have not tried this myself, but I think in about:config: In order to change your Firefox Configuration please do the following steps :

  1. In the Location bar, type about:config and press Enter. The about:config "This might void your warranty!" warning page may appear.
  2. Click I'll be careful, I promise! to continue to the about:config page.
  3. Search for scrollbar and I believe layout.testing.overlay-scrollbars.always-visible set to true would put these on.

dom. disable_window_open_feature.scrollbars is the one that is set to false by default as well that prevents the scrollbars on a popup from being disabled. i am not sure if viewing Yahoo mail is a popup. I do not use it, but I will assume its not.

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