# Always Show Scrollbar

> Keeps vertical and horizontal scrollbars visible on selected sites.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/always-show-scrollbar](https://chrome-stats.com/d/always-show-scrollbar)

## Overview

- **ID:** `always-show-scrollbar`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** communism420
- **Category:** appearance
- **Daily users:** 9
- **Weekly downloads:** 11
- **Version:** 1.0.3
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-20
- **First published:** 2026-07-17
- **Size:** 1.30 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-07
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/always-show-scrollbar/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/communism420/Always-Show-Scrollbar/issues](https://github.com/communism420/Always-Show-Scrollbar/issues)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/always-show-scrollbar/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/always-show-scrollbar/privacy/)

## Description

Always Show Scrollbar keeps native vertical and horizontal scrollbars visible on websites that hide them with CSS.

Choose where the extension runs: on all supported websites, individual domains, wildcard subdomains, or local files when Firefox permits access.

Features:
- Restores page scrollbars and existing scrollable containers.
- Supports vertical and horizontal scrolling.
- Domain filter updates in real time.
- Popup with an enabled-domain counter and a shortcut to domain settings.
- Interface languages: English, Spanish, German, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Ukrainian, and French.
- No advertising, analytics, tracking, telemetry, remote code, or external requests.
- Fully open source under the MIT License.

The extension cannot modify Firefox-controlled pages such as about: pages or <a href="http://addons.mozilla.org" rel="nofollow">addons.mozilla.org</a>.

## Rankings

- #35,188 — Overall
- #78 — show
- #162 — visibility
- #197 — scroll

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `scripting`
- `storage`

### Host permissions

- `<all_urls>`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** High risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/always-show-scrollbar)