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Always Show SideBar in Mozilla

In Firefox, the vertical scrollbar disappears when content fits inside the viewport. This makes several layout types shift position, typically by 10 to 20 pixels.

You can make the vertical scrollbar visible all the time. Read the instructions below:

Always Visible Scrollbar

like Internet Explorer.

1. Open the HTML Editor/ Text Editor or Notepad

2. Copy & Paste following code snippet

  
:root {
overflow-y: scroll !important;
}

3. Save this file with name userContent.css in following path

C:\Documents and Settings\[Windows Login Name]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[profile name (random string of 8 letters, a dot (.) followed by some more letters)]\chrome\

4. Restart Firefox

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By Swatantra Kumar

Swatantra is an Open Source evangelist, a technologist and researcher. Professionally, he does software development, software architecture, server administration and project management. When he's not writing software, he enjoys building web entities and servers, reading about and working with new technologies, and trying to get his friends to make the move to open source software. He's written, co-written and published many articles in international journals, on various domains/topics including Open Source, Networks, Computer Organization, Mobile Technologies, and Business Intelligence. He made a proposal for an information management system at University level during graduation days.

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