diff --git a/src/App.css b/src/App.css
index 6c7e63fc..a7eca11b 100644
--- a/src/App.css
+++ b/src/App.css
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
   border-radius: var(--radius-lg);
   padding: 0.75rem 1rem;
   overflow-x: auto;
+  scrollbar-width: thin;
   margin: 0.6em 0;
 }
 .md pre code {
@@ -1412,6 +1413,8 @@ a.global-player-title:hover {
   padding: 0 0.5rem 0.5rem;
   max-height: 40vh;
   overflow-y: auto;
+  overscroll-behavior: contain;
+  scrollbar-width: thin;
 }
 .global-player-track > button {
   display: flex;
@@ -2893,6 +2896,8 @@ body.has-player .chat-fab {
      trigger's viewport rect, flipping above it when there isn't room below */
   min-width: 180px;
   overflow-y: auto;
+  overscroll-behavior: contain;
+  scrollbar-width: thin;
   background: var(--color-surface);
   border: var(--border-width) solid var(--color-border-subtle);
   border-radius: var(--radius-xl);
@@ -3936,6 +3941,8 @@ body.has-player .chat-fab {
   flex: 1 1 auto;
   min-height: 0;
   overflow-y: auto;
+  overscroll-behavior: contain;
+  scrollbar-width: thin;
   display: flex;
   flex-direction: column;
   gap: 0.75rem;
diff --git a/src/components/ConfirmModal.tsx b/src/components/ConfirmModal.tsx
index cdac3352..d6cf79fa 100644
--- a/src/components/ConfirmModal.tsx
+++ b/src/components/ConfirmModal.tsx
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import { useEffect } from "react";
 import { createPortal } from "react-dom";
 import { t } from "@lingui/core/macro";
 import { Trans } from "@lingui/react/macro";
+import { useScrollLock } from "../hooks/useScrollLock";
 
 interface ConfirmModalProps {
   message: string;
@@ -14,6 +15,7 @@ export function ConfirmModal(
   { message, confirmLabel, onConfirm, onCancel }: ConfirmModalProps,
 ) {
   const label = confirmLabel ?? t`Delete`;
+  useScrollLock();
 
   useEffect(() => {
     const onKey = (e: KeyboardEvent) => {
diff --git a/src/components/Modal.tsx b/src/components/Modal.tsx
index d2a5b618..b6c57b3c 100644
--- a/src/components/Modal.tsx
+++ b/src/components/Modal.tsx
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import { type ReactNode, useCallback, useEffect, useRef } from "react";
 import { createPortal } from "react-dom";
 import { t } from "@lingui/core/macro";
+import { useScrollLock } from "../hooks/useScrollLock";
 
 interface ModalProps {
   title: string;
@@ -25,12 +26,7 @@ export function Modal(
     onClose();
   }, [onBeforeClose, onClose]);
 
-  useEffect(() => {
-    document.body.style.overflow = "hidden";
-    return () => {
-      document.body.style.overflow = "";
-    };
-  }, []);
+  useScrollLock();
 
   useEffect(() => {
     const handler = (e: KeyboardEvent) => {
diff --git a/src/hooks/useScrollLock.ts b/src/hooks/useScrollLock.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2d654510
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/hooks/useScrollLock.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+import { useEffect } from "react";
+
+let locks = 0;
+
+/**
+ * Freezes the page's scroll while the calling component is mounted — for
+ * modals, whose backdrop shouldn't let the feed slide underneath.
+ *
+ * Hiding the viewport's overflow drops its scrollbar, which would widen the
+ * page and shift everything behind the backdrop. If a bar is showing, its
+ * gutter is held for the duration of the lock instead, so the layout stays
+ * put; no gutter is reserved the rest of the time. Locks are counted so a
+ * confirm stacked on a modal doesn't release the page when it closes first.
+ */
+export function useScrollLock() {
+  useEffect(() => {
+    const root = document.documentElement;
+    if (locks++ === 0) {
+      if (window.innerWidth > root.clientWidth) {
+        root.style.scrollbarGutter = "stable";
+      }
+      root.style.overflowY = "hidden";
+    }
+    return () => {
+      if (--locks === 0) {
+        root.style.overflowY = "";
+        root.style.scrollbarGutter = "";
+      }
+    };
+  }, []);
+}
diff --git a/src/index.css b/src/index.css
index 6168df7b..53209d52 100644
--- a/src/index.css
+++ b/src/index.css
@@ -4,11 +4,17 @@
   box-sizing: border-box;
 }
 
+html {
+  overflow-x: clip;
+  /* Inherited by every scroller: a theme-tinted thumb on a clear track
+     instead of the stock grey bar. */
+  scrollbar-color: color-mix(in srgb, var(--color-text-muted) 45%, transparent)
+    transparent;
+}
+
 body {
   margin: 0;
   min-height: 100vh;
-  overflow-x: clip;
-  scrollbar-gutter: stable;
   background-color: var(--color-bg);
   color: var(--color-text);
   -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;