RichScrollbar sunset

RichScrollbar extension, RSB for friends, is quite simple and not intrusive but technically is a big compromise.
It is written as  XBL component and runs inside chrome context and  browser content context.

Under Firefox 3 beta1 and beta2 RSB after some fix worked like a charm, when beta3 arrived RSB was broken.

Mark Finkle helped me to understand why RSB didn’t work and we discover FF3 fixed a security bug on XBL.

Now it is impossible to make RSB functional on browser windows, it works only on chrome dialogs.

I surrend, period! I have not enough technical knowledge to dig for a workaround.

I consider terminated the RSB development, the XBL documentation is poor and all my help requests haven’t received reply except Mark.

Honestly I’m sad, I love RSB and I prefer it to Mouse Gestures, I’ll continue to search for a fix but it is very difficult to find.

Mark helped me and I would say thank to him, great people work at Mozilla.

Richscrollbar top ten download sorted by locale

I’ve created statistics about Richscrollbar, I’m very proud to find Japan at 2nd place.

Place	Download count	Locale
1	138	en-US
2	78	ja
3	19	it
4	18	fr
5	17	en-GB
6	14	de
7	14	ru
8	12	es-ES
9	7	zh-TW
10	4	zh-CN

Italy, my country is 3th 😦

Richscrollbar released

After ten months I’ve released a new Richscrollbar (RSB) version, starting from FF3 compatibility issues I’ve done some other work.

Finally standard OS themes aren’t offended by old ugly RSB scrollbars, now RSB integrates better with the native OS look&feel.

Now RSB simplifies integration with themes, a model based on supported themes repository allow me to quickly add css styles.

Finally users can decide to remove RSB scrollbars from listbox, tree and so on and have them only on main browser window.

Very strange is the reason RSB doesn’t work on FF3; The nsIStyleSheetService.USER_SHEET must be changed to nsIStyleSheetService.AGENT_SHEET

It’s always present the problem with disabled javascript due to bug 236839 that limits RSB usage for example with Thunderbird or when NoScript is installed

Initially I would make RSB compatible with Seamonkey but the current number of users is so little that this compatibility isn’t necessary