Vista Glass for Firefox



For all you people who have been looking for a way to get Vista's glass effect in Firefox, look no further. Here is an extension for Firefox 3.1 that will do it. Please read this entire article before install this extension.

NOTE: This extension requires Windows Vista, Windows 7, or one of the server variants with Areo Glass enabled.

Known Issues

Because of a bug in the way Firefox renders parts of the UI with rounded borders or opacity, a small portion of the last character in text will appeared cut off and slight sub-pixel hazing in the toolbars. It will not make of the labels or text unreadable. This is recorded in Mozilla's Bug Tracker as Bug 363861. Maybe voting on the bug will help push getting it fixed before the final release.

Install

Get the VERY latest version from Sleeping Cats
Get the latest active version from AddOns.Mozilla.Org
Download: Glasser 1.0.16 Installer, x64, for Firefox 3.0 (XPI) This is for x64 builds of Firefox not x64 versions of Windows. To install Glasser x64, first download the file, then drag and drop it to your Firefox window.

Options



If you want the Windows Explorer, Windows Media Player, or Windows Mail style background on the personal toolbar, visit the Glasser Extras forum. You can install the CSS files with either the Stylish Add-on, or by edit your userChrome.css file.

If you want to remove the menu-bar, try either Personal Menu or Hide Menubar. Both support using the Alt key to temperately show the menu-bar and Personal Menu lets you keep a button on the toolbar to gain access to the menus.

Source Code

Glasser's native components and the extension itself is released under a 2-clause FreeBSD style license.
XPCOM for DWM access source and the GeckoSDK
To view the source of the extension, you may either browse it from your web browser for check it out via your favorite SVN client.

Final Note, and Special Thanks

I hope you folks enjoy this extension. If anyone has any suggestions or finds any bugs, feel free to post them here. I'm look to improve this more.

I used a similar method go get the native window handle as used in MinimizeToTray, but coded in C++.
Special thanks goes to Julius Caro for building the XPCOM portion for x64 builds of Firefox.
Special thanks goes to Carl Booth for the Aqua personal bar.
Special thanks goes to Relativity_17 for the heads up on the native theme element for Windows Mail/Calendar look.
Special thanks goes to ptmb for for the heads up on the native theme element for Windows Media Player look.

License

cool

My favorite firefox extension firefox looks amazing in vista with this.

6XGate, what extension are you using for the new tab button on the tab bar? Tab mix plus?

Perhaps this one with a modified install.rdf to make it compatible with 3.0.

Your link is dead-404

Yes that is Tab Mix Plus Viper. A dev release you can get it here Tab Mix Plus 0.3.6.1.080416

A heavly modified (fixed) version of New Tab on Tab Bar. I hope the author will update it himself soon. The nightly tool won't fix it BTW.

How the he** did you get the back button to look the same as forward?? Looks great!

Right click the nav bar and hit customize. Select small icons.

Ah of course mate, thanx:)

how do i get the text on the personal menu extension items on the right hand side rather than underneath the icon. (Like how it is for the home icon).

very cool. Glad it is updated..

Just need someone to update stylish to work with RC1 so we can get our other styles with this working.

you could also use an extension called basics to add a tab button to the tab bar area. but like tabs mix plus it lacks themes integration. Its best you wait for the author of new tab button to update it. Here's the link anyway.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addons/versions/69

BTW its compatiable for 3.0pre so modifying the install.rdf will make it work with RC1 without any problems.

Veeeery nice Addon!

On your screenshot there is more space between the buttons and the toolbar. How do I get this too? Thx


left your screen | right mine

WongKit

Same here, how to make the extra space?

Thank you very much for this update 6XGate! It's good to see you have bought it out just as RC1 is released! I just wish other developers would do the same with their extensions!




I used Basics for Beta 5 as it worked, however, that doesn't work for RC1. I wish the developer of New Tab Button on Tab Bar would update it, but it doesn't look like he is going to anytime soon

Is there any chance you could provide us with you heavily modified and working version of New Tab Button on Tab Bar please 6XGate? I would really appreciate it.





I would love to know this too please.


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This is the value that change this padding:

Change the value to the one you wish.

Tomorrow Ill go ahead and compile the latest version of the DLL for the x64 platform. Although there's no x64 build of rc1 anywhere, as far as I know.

This is awesome!

New version. Very good, thanks for releasing this new version!

Sorry folks, I forgot I had that one. It's a Stylish entry

Ok. So will there be a new version of Glasser?

Just a quick heads-up, the favicon part of the URL bar is slightly out. Fix:

6XGate. Just a quick question:

Do you plan on including some of these important Stylish styles (e.g. the thing to move the icons up a bit, transparent menu-bar) in with the extension XPI file itself at all? It would be really helpful, although because I'm only a beginner programmer I don't know whether it can be done with the way you've coded the extension.

awesome extension! it'd be great if you could compile all the variations into an options pane too.

very nice, thanks

Looking great, thanks! Using it right now on RC1

I discovered this recently after installing RC1 and it is AWESOME!!!

This does not work for me :-(

I'm trying to figure out what you mean. The code you gave makes the identity box bigger on the left side whereas without the code you give, the identity box looks fine

Worked fine for me using stylish. The identity box was too wide and looked kind of weird but now it's normal. I'm using RC1 can't imagine why it's not working for anyone else.

Added to userChrome.css

perfect fix Thanks

I did and still not working :-(

nice job

I fail to see what the problem is???

Yep, after checking it over again, the identity box thing was a problem without the code. The code given works perfectly, thank you (although I changed it from -4 to -5 and it seems to look even more centered and even).

Any chance of you including it in the next update of your extension please 6XGate?

Any chance of someone explaining to me what the exact problem is? I can't see one or notice one.

Thanks.

^ that's the problem and the fix

Exactly. & now I can show you what I mean too.

Here is a screenshot of what it looks like with the code you and everyone else has; which has the value of "-4". This screenshot compares it to what it looks like with that value changed to "-5":



Can you see it looks a bit better and is more centered (how we want it), with the value of "-5"?




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-4 looks better imo

I don't know about the padding, but the menubar is already transparent in the extension. I'll be fixing the identity box in the next release.

Oh right lol.

Well I meant where the background of the menu-bar is white, but still transparent instead of the same colour as the Aero transparency.

I am currently using this CSS code in the userChrome.css to fix it:






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Already, just uploaded a new version with the identity box fixed (no need for the negative margin anymore) and added the padding to the small icon nav-bar as shown in the screenshot.

also...



I currently have no plans to change the menubar since it won't work on all backgrounds without being that way. I just leave up the the users to decide to remove it based on their using habits and make no assumptions as to the lightness of what may be behind firefox

Well mine must be fixed then.

are you going to put the extension on mozilla.org?

Nice Stuff, I like it, thnx

OK. I understand that, I don't mind editing the userChrome.css a lil bit

I'm just very grateful that you've decided to create an extension which implements Aero glass into Firefox AND you have shared it with us and continue to update it frequently.

Thank you very much

Just upload the 1.0.16 version for x64 builds of Firefox, thanks to Julius Caro.

Brilliant.

Can anybody please give me the CSS code to make the text of the menubar white please?

The code in the last thread doesn't seem to be working for me.

Thanks.

I'd like the code to get rid of the white toolbar also.