I have had this problem with other apps like Synaptic in the past.

When I click on the open area of the bar, it goes many pages instead of just one page like it should.

It works right in the Firefox on AntiX16 but is messing up in the version with AntiX17 beta.

Is firefox the only application which is misbehaving? Test synaptic to see whether it's currently misbehaving also.

Try specifying a different gtk theme when launching firefox

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to find out whether the bug is specific to use of a particular theme (I'm guessing that it is).

Thanks skidoo, you are a wealth of knowledge...

That's surprising someone would have done something like that on purpose. I'll boot it again and give it a try

thriftee wrote:When I click on the open area of the bar, it goes many pages instead of just one page like it should.

I get this behavior with the newer Firefox in other distros.

A quick Google brings me to:
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Holding down the shift key while clicking is a work-around. They say the problem is in GTK-3 and there are links to more permanent solutions:

For Gtk+3, the solution is to add this to ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini:

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[Settings]
gtk-primary-button-warps-slider=false

If you can verify this works then I suggest we make this part of our OOTB default configuration.

this has annoyed me so much about certain gtk applications for a while now.

i will likely add this modification to fig os; but no one here uses it. this is mostly a giant thank you for directing me to a solution towards this (utterly obnoxious) problem. i suspect that some gtk developer (any of them most likely) thought that everyone uses tablets now, and who cares if some little thing like scrollbars become all but useless to mouse users?

thats their problem for using a mouse instead of a tablet, says the gtk design guidelines (only joking, im pretty sure the gtk design guidelines just say"every man for himself!") thank you, thank you, thank you.