15-year old bug in Firefox bugtracker | Hacker News Reader

15-year old bug in Firefox bugtracker

"I will no longer be supporting Firefox on my site. I will [cite] this bugzilla entry as why"

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77790

It concerns a 2001 proposal to 'support the scrollbar-(blah)-color properties implemented in IE5.5'. More specifically, this comment comes from someone who is one of several who really want that ability.

It concerns a 2001 proposal to style scrollbars, which Firefox still doesn't want to support to this day. It's 2016, we have web apps, but we have no way to change or hide the ugly Firefox scrollbars (assuming we don't want to write our library to render custom scrollbars, which is inherently fragile and not trivial).

Yes, I understand your advocacy position. My goal was different.

When I saw the title and comment I wondered what the bug was - was it something I should worry about for my projects? How serious is it? Is it something that should get me to move away from Firefox?

It took some reading of the bug report thread to figure out what was going on.

My summary was for other HN readers who, like myself, might want that precis before diving in, either to ignore the topic or to really jump into it.

I wonder if there is a trend away from standards. Has the web just become "whatever chrome does"? None of the developers who seem to care so much about this mentions creating a standard for this sort of feature.

    spending millions of man hours) are making "excuses," while Mozilla, who could fix this easily

In any case it seems the web developers complaining on this bug don't appreciate the scale of modern browsers.

I think they appreciate. That's why they are flabbergasted when developers refuse to implement such a trivial feature for 15 years.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com