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Disable find results in the Firefox scrollbar

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yugiohjcj1
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Hello,

Since Firefox 87, the “Highlight All” feature on Find in Page now displays tick marks alongside your scrollbar that correspond to the location of matches found on that page. Source: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/87.0/releasenotes/ So when I press Ctrl+F to find something then I check "Highlight All", I see the results in the scrollbar. I don't want to see these tick marks alongside my scrollbar. I prefer the old behavior.

How to go back to the old behavior please?

Thank you. Best regards.

Hello, Since Firefox 87, the “Highlight All” feature on Find in Page now displays tick marks alongside your scrollbar that correspond to the location of matches found on that page. Source: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/87.0/releasenotes/ So when I press Ctrl+F to find something then I check "Highlight All", I see the results in the scrollbar. I don't want to see these tick marks alongside my scrollbar. I prefer the old behavior. How to go back to the old behavior please? Thank you. Best regards.

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Terry
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I am not getting tick marks when I use "Highlight All" and I don't see a reference to such a 'feature' on that release notes page. Trying it in troubleshoot mode may help. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/diagnose-firefox-issues-using-troubleshoot-mode https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-extensions-themes-to-fix-problems

Modified by Terry

yugiohjcj1
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TerryN21 said
I am not getting tick marks when I use "Highlight All"

Maybe you are not using the same version of Firefox than me. Here is a screenshot showing the problem: https://i.imgur.com/PlQovhw.png

TerryN21 said
I don't see a reference to such a 'feature' on that release notes page.

Directly copied and paste from the release note page: "The “Highlight All” feature on Find in Page now displays tick marks alongside your scrollbar that correspond to the location of matches found on that page.". Source: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/87.0/releasenotes/

TerryN21 said
Trying it in troubleshoot mode may help.

Nope it does not help.

Modified by yugiohjcj1

Terry
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OK, sorry, I do see it on the release notes page but it has never appeared here. I am presently using Firefox 91.0. I previously had css code for the scrollbars and I am still using that for scrollbar colours. Firefox 89 introduced some about:config preferences for the scrollbars.

yugiohjcj1
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I am happy to know that this problem is eventually fixed in 91.0 and 89 but currently I have to stay with 88.0.1 because versions after this one are slow at the first startup. During 1 minute I can't use my web browser. So, I prefer to stay on 88.0.1 for the moment and try to find how to disable this scrollbar feature.