If Firefox 3 drops Vista look

[antsy]

Big deal so the wallpaper doesn't go with the curtains why do you give a crap? :rolleyes:

[Warboy]

Guys, try this userstyle

http://userstyles.org/styles/5093

That theme is http://userstyles.org/styles/5189

*Smack* *smack*

Both mainly wrong. Its not a User theme. Yes. They are the same, but they just use the fix basically via Stylish. Thats all.

if you look at the link i supplied, you can see that.

[?AK]

Actually these userstyles do a good job.

[+Gary7 Subscriber²]

Big deal so the wallpaper doesn't go with the curtains why do you give a crap? :rolleyes:

No not me.

[Ravensky]

Firefox does not look fine as it is, it's the fugliest browser I have ever used, I have been waiting for the "Vista" look to show up inthe FF3 beta's to give it a try. If they decide not to add it then I will not be considering using it.

[Xenomorph]

If this guy bases his browser usage on how much it looks exactly like another browser, then I don't give ANY worth to his statements.

[Robbie Khan Reviews]

Firefox does not look fine as it is, it's the fugliest browser I have ever used, I have been waiting for the "Vista" look to show up inthe FF3 beta's to give it a try. If they decide not to add it then I will not be considering using it.

That's the ugliest reply I've ever seen in a Firefox thread.

FF is not ugly by default, all it needs is a little customisation (read: customisation) to be a really nice to look at and use browser.

After all, Firefox is a browser for the web surfer who likes to take control of his or her web browsing experience.

[ObiWanToby]

That's the ugliest reply I've ever seen in a Firefox thread.

FF is not ugly by default, all it needs is a little customisation (read: customisation) to be a really nice to look at and use browser.

After all, Firefox is a browser for the web surfer who likes to take control of his or her web browsing experience.

That looks better, but it doesn't look "good". IE will always reign as long as it looks better than FF. It comes on all Windows PCs and it works fine....plus the RSS integration looks wonderful

Edited February 17, 2008 by Intelman

[Robbie Khan Reviews]

That's true but it is not better than firefox purely based on the fact it's less secure (you cannot block ads flat out like you can in FF so a rogue ad even on a legit site cannot compromise you in FF with filterset updaters enabled in Adblock in FF)

Not only that but FF has way more features...

[ObiWanToby]

I dunno, I block ads with IE7 pro just fine...and it is in Vista, I run as a non admin like everyone should, I'm not really at risk for malware...

http://www.ie7pro.com/

[Ayepecks]

Please don't turn this into an IE thread.

[metallithrax]

I'm confused as to why people care so much about how their browser looks. When you're using the internet, wouldn't you pay more attention to the actual page displayed rather than the browser?

But some people complain about anti virus/anti spyware GUI's and even zip program GUI's. It is as though they care more about how it looks than how it works.

[Robbie Khan Reviews]

I dunno, I block ads with IE7 pro just fine...and it is in Vista, I run as a non admin like everyone should, I'm not really at risk for malware...

http://www.ie7pro.com/

Adblock for FF is the "only" proper adblock, no other browser has a more robust extension either third party or built in that Firefox - this is a 100% fact.

[SolidSapphire]

I hope they do drop the Vista look or whatever look that FF currently has, It's Fugly and they need to make it look like it did in XP. And no, it doesn't have to be Half Glass like in IE.

[RadishTM Veteran]

But some people complain about anti virus/anti spyware GUI's and even zip program GUI's. It is as though they care more about how it looks than how it works.

Indeed :/

Radish?

[ObiWanToby]

Please don't turn this into an IE thread.

It is important to show the contrast, and how much GUI can affect an user.

[Ayepecks]

Yes, but you did that with your first post... now you're going into how you can make IE similar to Firefox. We're only talking about GUI here, not IE7 Pro's features :)

[bat3o8]

LOL, And to think that I use Firefox for its useability, performance and overall stable designs. If you want it to look like Vista code a theme for it or wait till one is made and posted on firefox addon themes site. jeez such ranting over a simple thing like [Well if they dont make it look like this then ill go use something else] Keep the bloatware iexplore (sic) I'll stick with Firefox it performs changes and listens to its loyal users as to what is needed to get through and survive todays web.

[KzR]

I'll continue using FF3. Looks for a web browser doesn't really matter to me, I'm more concerned about its performance and memory usage, things which Firefox performs very well in.

[anarkhy]

Why they want to keep firefox ugly? Cant be so hard to make it with vista looks.

I?ll keep using firefox anyways but a interface compatible with vista would be nice.

[AJerman]

Wow, I'm surprised by some of the replies and how many nos there are in the poll. Who cares what it looks like if it works? FF (to me) is a thousand times better than IE, and it looks just fine to me. Not to mention the fact that I always use my browser maximized, so I don't want some silly glass look getting in the way.

And even though IE7 is a decent browser, and perhaps you can get plugins (IE pro or whatever it is) to block ads, there are too many other things that I use in FF that IE doesn't have that I can't live without. I can too quickly click CTRL+L, type in a domain name, then press CTRL/SHIFT/CTRL+SHIFT Enter to go to whatever website I want. I realize that IE has ALT+D and CTRL+Enter, but I like the auto completes for .net and .org as well, and I'm used to CTRL+L now.

I can think of a nice list of things that Firefox has and IE doesn't, but can't think of anything that IE has that Firefox doesn't, and looks certainly don't count for anything for me, so IE7 will never replace Firefox for me.

Then again, I have a Macbook as my main machine at home now, so it really makes little difference to me anymore. I still have a PC at home and use a PC at work though, so I'm not completely out of it.

[1Frothy]

Why they want to keep firefox ugly? Cant be so hard to make it with vista looks.

I?ll keep using firefox anyways but a interface compatible with vista would be nice.

Exactly. Just a little more effort from Mozilla would be great. I don't like any of the user created themes out there. No really anyway.

[Randolph]

This thread has no valid point. Just mass speculation. And that screenshot posting with the blue back and forward buttons...what Firefox is that? Why does mine look so much different? I am running a nightly preb4 build.

[Linkinfamous]

[*] Glass in the Toolbars would be impossible.

I actually tried to do it.

I set the background to black, and make the call to extend glass.

This was the result:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=265448

Basically, the only issues seemed to be with the two text boxes. They're apparently drawing bitmaps so that alpha transparency works perfectly fine on top, they're just not rendering text properly for it. If they fix the text issue, glass would work beautifully.

I recommend that everyone goes over to this page on bugzilla:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=367993

and votes for this....Hopefully renewed interest in this bug would help.

OR, if anyone understands how Firefox works, and wants to try patching it so that the text is rendered properly, that'd be spectacular.

Edited February 18, 2008 by MioTheGreat

[nazgul]

I actually tried to do it.

I set the background to black, and make the call to extend glass.

This was the result:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=265448

Basically, the only issues seemed to be with the two text boxes. They're apparently drawing bitmaps so that alpha transparency works perfectly fine on top, they're just not rendering text properly for it. If they fix the text issue, glass would work beautifully.

I recommend that everyone goes over to this page on bugzilla:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=367993

and votes for this....Hopefully renewed interest in this bug would help.

OR, if anyone understands how Firefox works, and wants to try patching it so that the text is rendered properly, that'd be spectacular.

I realllly hope someone gives it a shot. That'd be pretty awesome... that right there looks quite badass.