Some how in making the jump from XP to 8.1 Firefox messed up his scrollbars. They went light grey, almost invisible, and the slider, or thumb, was just a shade or two darker than the scrollbar and damn hard to see. PITA.
There is a fix for Firefox. Down load an add-in called NewScrollbars, or sometimes NOIAScrollbars 1.21. Google will find it for you. Good fix, you can set any color you like and the slider is a nice high contrast easy to see. Significant improvement.
Too bad I haven't found something like this for Windows 8.1 itself. The M$ people were into very soft pastels this time which are hard to see. User friendly those Microsofties.