Comments by "Nicolae Crefelean" (@kneekoo) on "Firefox 100, New Features" video.

  1. Scrollbars are very useful. I get that people used to tiling window managers are fine with using the keyboard, but using the mouse to click the scrollbar to quickly navigate down, or dragging its handle to move faster up and down is very useful on large pages. It's way better than wasting time scrolling, because there are quite a few websites nowadays having a lot of content, and scrollbars mare a lot of sense there. Besides, even back in the days of THICK scrollbars, you could argue that they waste space, but realistically if you blame a 20px wide for not having enough content at resolutions of 1024 or more pixels, then I wonder how can you miss the elephant in the room, and that's the design itself. Also, there's zoom for people who really need to cram more on a page. You don't really get a lot more if you don't have them. Also, web designers who hide the scrollbars on pages with huge vertical content should be criminally prosecuted. :P Kidding, but that's a horrible experience when you have to rely on the mouse wheel to smoothly scroll through the content. It's quite rare when not having a scrollbar is a good idea. Most of the time it's an important feature. Even on a touch screen I prefer using it to scroll vertically faster, because when you have to swiped your screen 10+ times to reach the bottom for some footer info that you need quickly, it sucks.
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  2. Exactly, that precision is only possible with the scrollbar.
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  3. That works nicely, but it's not by far as accurate as moving the scrollbar.
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