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missing scroll bars in location bar history

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I used to be able to scroll through my location bar suggestions with my mouse wheel or scroll bars on the right hand side. I no longer see scroll bars and the mouse wheel does nothing. I don't know when this started.\

FF 56.0

I used to be able to scroll through my location bar suggestions with my mouse wheel or scroll bars on the right hand side. I no longer see scroll bars and the mouse wheel does nothing. I don't know when this started.\ FF 56.0

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Add code to the userChrome.css file below the default @namespace line to have a scroll bar.


@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"); /* only needed once */

#PopupAutoCompleteRichResult > richlistbox > scrollbox {
 overflow: auto !important;
}

You can use the button on the "Help -> Troubleshooting Information" (about:support) page to go to the current Firefox profile folder or use the about:profiles page.

  • create the chrome folder (lowercase) in the <xxxxxxxx>.default profile folder if this folder doesn't exist
  • use a plain text editor like Notepad to create a (new) userChrome.css file in the chrome folder (file name is case sensitive)
  • paste the code in the userChrome.css file in the editor window
  • make sure that the userChrome.css file starts with the default @namespace line
  • make sure that you select "All files" and not "Text files" when you save the file via "Save file as" in the text editor as userChrome.css.
    otherwise Windows may add a hidden .txt file extension and you end up with a not working userChrome.css.txt file
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No dice. What do I do next?