[SOLVED] Giving Firefox an infinite vertical scroll bar

I recently reinstalled Arch after having a really difficult time with the move of binaries to /usr/bin
There's one nagging issue after reinstalling, and I can't seem to find anything about it here. In Firefox, the vertical scrollbar on the right hand side of the screen doesn't meet the edge of the screen like it did before. What I mean is that I have to back up my cursor a pixel or two from the edge of the screen to hit the scroll bar. This behavior is frustrating, because it's so much easier to be able to just throw your cursor to the edge and click.
I thought that this behavior might be controlled by GTK2 theme, but I haven't been able to find any themes that behave this way. Does anybody have an idea of what's going on here? My window manager is Openbox.
Last edited by fatjake (2013-06-18 01:19:33)

I was able to resolve this issue by switching Firefox to the "Littlefox complete theme". Thanks dag!
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo … or-firefox
So this problem seems to have something to do with the default Firefox theme. This whole issue is one of those things that many people might not outright notice, but once you're aware of it drives you mad. Such a little thing but such a huge effect on usability. Here's another discussion about it if anybody finds it interesting
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … bug/125734
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