Office XP look in Firefox/Thunderbird

By loopnine
in Tips, Tweaks & Customization

 Share

Recommended Posts

Explorer

loopnine

Posted
Posted (edited)

update: A while ago, I made this tweak into an extension, with the added ability to use the colors of your system (not always blue). Download here

I have made a tweak for Firefox/Thunderbird that makes the menus and the menubuttons look like Office XP.

I got the idea after seeing this at kde-look.org. I used that as a base and changed the colors, refined the whole thing + added office xp style menu-buttons to it.

It should work in any Firefox/Thunderbird version at any platform with any theme, but it might look bad width some themes.

I colored it the same as my Office XP looked when I used the Opus OS Visual Style, so if you want other colors you will have to change them manually.

this is not a skin, it does not change the icons, only the way menus and menu-buttons look.

I think that this makes Firefox look more professional.

this is released under GPL (open source).

hope you like it

Installation:

put the files dotnet.png and userChrome.css in your personal firefox/thunderbird-chrome-dir (hint, mine is: C:\Documents and Settings\Andreas\Application Data\Phoenix\Profiles\default\dldqyjbq.slt\chrome) and restart firefox/thunderbird.

post-34-1073726953.png

version-log:

1.0.5:

fixed all problems when using this together with the Smoke theme by Aaron Spuler. Made the menu-separators in menus without colored left-margins look better. Made disabled menus visible again, that also makes the menu-buttons stop "jumping" when going into costomize mode.

1.0.4:

fixed a bug that made the forward/back buttons (and other buttons of that kind) get bigger if you clicked on them when they where disabled (grey). I also added instructions inside the file for how to get back the toolbar-separators, for those who like toolbar-separators (I dont).

1.0.3:

fixed a bug that made the forward-button and the back-button have diffrent size if they where disabled. That made the whole line of buttons move if you switched from a tab width history to one without.

1.0.2:

very small update, cleaned up a little and added authors names again (witch somehow disapeared betwean 1.0 and 1.0.1)

1.0.1:

fixed "no text under disabled menu-buttons in Windows Classic"-bug

1.0:

everything

OfficeXP_style_for_Firebird_1.0.5.zip

Edited by loopnine
Link to comment
https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/130499-office-xp-look-in-firefoxthunderbird/
Share on other sites
Explorer

loopnine

Posted
  • Author
Posted

sorry for not answering you but I was sleeping so it wasn't very easy :)

the reason for not making it a skin was because I wanted it to work on any other skin and not just the one I chosed to base it on.

thanks virtorio for posting a screenshot, I have uptaded the first post with one now to.

It is not the icons i have changed, just the way menus and buttons look.

I forgot to write yesterday that it works on thunderbird as well, thanks JustinSaneLBS for telling.

post-34-1073726953.png

Explorer

loopnine

Posted
  • Author
Posted
it doesn't quite work in Windows Classic (Disabled menu items text doesn't show, no margin on the content menus) but it's still really cool :cool:

For me disabled menu items text does show in Windows Classic....

could you post a screenshot so I can see what you mean

Explorer

loopnine

Posted
  • Author
Posted
Here

ok now i get it...

the reason why you don't se the text under disabled menu-buttons is because I wrote the color myself instead of importing it from windows, download it again now and it should be fixed.

I think the reason why you dont see the margin in the menus is because you only put the userChrome.css file in your chrome dir, and not the dotnet.png file.

This topic is now closed to further replies.
 Share
Go to topic listing

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.

  • Posts

    • what other retro software do yall use

      By goretsky · Posted

      Hello, Also known for https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/jan/29/adware-internet.   Regards, Aryeh Goretsky    
    • You pay just $100 per TB with this rare 4TB PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSD deal

      By goretsky · Posted

      Hello, I have used a few TEAM Group SSDs, USB flash drives, and Micro SDXC cards in the past. They all seemed to work fine. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky
    • You pay just $100 per TB with this rare 4TB PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSD deal

      By vjlex · Posted

      "just $100 per TB"? Just? Are we trying to make this seem like the new normal? Kinda weird to make it sound like that is not a ridiculously expensive asking price.
    • Major Xbox layoffs may claim South of Midnight developer Compulsion entirely

      By qbrick · Posted

      The reviews you refer to mean nothing. Where there is no journalism there is no reason to call the gaming media's opinion pieces "reviews". For GP games there is indeed a metric for success - increasing subscriptions. Which turns in revenue. The only circumstance in which subs do not rise when great is being released is a Game Pass system where the company is close to fully saturated with customers in a subscription. However, in that case as the theory goes you spend aplenty in all kind of games - from shady live service cash cows and customer offending agitprop crap in purple colours to robust and entertaining single player games. And keep a solid level of profitability. Ignoring the simply innocuous but mid games MGS has released primarily of the second kind.
    • Report: Microsoft to use AWS to help GitHub deal with a major surge in demand

      By pradeepviswav · Posted

      Report: Microsoft to use AWS to help GitHub deal with a major surge in demand by Pradeep Viswanathan Thanks to the surge of coding AI agents, GitHub's usage has skyrocketed over the past 12 months. To meet this demand, GitHub started with a plan in October 2025 to increase capacity by 10x. However, by early this year, the company realized that it needed 30x scale. This rapid growth has caused severe strain on the platform's reliability, resulting in several small outages over the past few months. In April, GitHub published a long blog post explaining the steps it is taking to resolve these reliability issues. In the post, the company also confirmed that it is working toward a multi-cloud architecture for better resilience. Today, Business Insider reported that GitHub is turning to Amazon Web Services to help deal with a major surge in AI-driven coding activity. It is important to note that GitHub is still in the process of moving completely to the Azure cloud. The current plan is to move the platform fully to Azure by 2027 so that it can scale better as per developer demand. Therefore, the current decision to utilize AWS might be part of a short-term plan to meet immediate demand. A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed that GitHub is using multiple cloud providers with the following statement: For Microsoft, the decision highlights the operational pressure behind the AI boom. GitHub has to stay reliable for developers at a time when rivals such as Codex, Cursor, Claude Code, and other AI coding tools are gaining attention. And the decision to use AWS for computing capacity seems practical given the circumstances.

  • Recent Achievements

    • Collaborator
      vjlex earned a badge
      Collaborator
    • Reacting Well
      Dys Topia earned a badge
      Reacting Well
    • Conversation Starter
      NovaEdgeX earned a badge
      Conversation Starter
    • One Year In
      Console General earned a badge
      One Year In
    • Week One Done
      Twozo Technologies earned a badge
      Week One Done

  • Popular Contributors

    1. 1
      +primortal
      517
    2. 2
      +Edouard
      182
    3. 3
      PsYcHoKiLLa
      106
    4. 4
      Steven P.
      88
    5. 5
      ATLien_0
      68
    Show More

  • Tell a friend

    Love Neowin? Tell a friend!