Firefox 3 Themes


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If you are reading this post odds are you are one of the 1.2 million people currently enjoying a beta or nightly build of Firefox 3. However are you a big enough Firefox fan that you like to run it simultaneously on 4 different platforms? If not, here are some screen shots of the new themes for Firefox 3 for Vista, Linux, OS X and XP.

Read the rest of the article on Alex Faaborg's blog.

Screenshots of the main window with the final themes:

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I for one think the new theme looks good. What are your opinions?

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I've grown accustom to it these past few months.

However, expect people to complain about:

  1. there is no glass in toolbar in Vista.
  2. The XP theme looks too "Plasticy".
  3. anything else incredibly insignificant.

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I think the default Windows Vista theme looks amazing when the 'Glasser' extension is installed. It looks OK anyway. I think maybe I was expecting a little bit too much, but it is a VERY big improvement on the default themes in Firefox 1.0, Firefox 1.5 and Firefox 2.0.

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Vista, XP, and Mac look horrible. Linux looks the best.

The stupid back/forward buttons look terrible in the non-linux themes.

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I really like all of them. They all fit into their respective system and that's, after all, what the UI developers wanted to achieve. Personally I like the linux version most (usage of gtk-stock buttons were a really good idea), then XP, followed by Vista. Didn't see the Mac theme in action, so not included in rating.

And all those complaining, just skin it to your liking ;)

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I hate the Back/Forward buttons.

BUT in "Small Icons" they look very nice.

Same here.

And Linux's icons look way too different from the rest. Why didn't they give it the strange back orb too, I wonder?

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Same here.

And Linux's icons look way too different from the rest. Why didn't they give it the strange back orb too, I wonder?

The Linux theme is supposed to blend in with the user's (Gnome) theme. I.e. use the GTK theme and icon theme selected by the user.

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Where is the link to dl the themes?

These are the default themes for Firefox 3.

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In my opinion, the Linux theme is the best, while the Vista theme looks excellent with the Glasser extension, with the Mac and XP theme rounding out at the bottom.

Scirwode

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I've grown accustom to it these past few months.

However, expect people to complain about:

  1. there is no glass in toolbar in Vista.
  2. The XP theme looks too "Plasticy".
  3. anything else incredibly insignificant.

There won't be any glass in Firefox until version 4, it needs to overhaul some of the rendering system.

And the Mac theme is amazing, it fits into the OS beautifully, I assume everybody saying it's bad isn't using a mac?

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I've grown accustom to it these past few months.

However, expect people to complain about:

  1. there is no glass in toolbar in Vista.
  2. The XP theme looks too "Plasticy".
  3. anything else incredibly insignificant.

Glass toolbar with an extension

https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=632112

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Kinda agree with the xp theme thing, but really it is supposed to look like that because that's how xp's style looks.

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They should have made the Back and Forward buttons a bit smaller so that it doesn't touch the top and bottom line in XP. Same counts for the Vista theme. I just think that those 2 buttons are too big. Besides that I like the themes.

The XP theme from the first mockup was still the best one for XP though. It didn't look that much out of place.

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And the Mac theme is amazing, it fits into the OS beautifully, I assume everybody saying it's bad isn't using a mac?

I use a Mac, and I still say it looks bad :p . I'm not saying it's horrible, I just feel that Mozilla could have done better as it still doesn't really fit well into Mac OS X look, what with the rounded buttons and all. That said, it is miles better than what Firefox 2 for Mac had and we will still have GrApple so I don't see much of a problem to be honest.

Scirwode

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:)

Thank you very much.

Edit: Not compatible with FF3.

Not yet - give the theme author a few days. Or, if you're really impatient, install the Nightly Tester Tools extension and whip the Vista on XP theme into submission. :shiftyninja:

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Is it possible to have 3 themed like 2?

Yes. <insert obligatory 'wait-for-theme-to-be-compatible-with-Firefox 3-or-use-Nightly-Tester-Tools' comment here>

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I'll give them credit that they've improved quite a lot to the point where my complaints are small details. Far from a perfectly native app though. ;) I'll blame that on XUL though.

Oddly enough, the Quit buttons don't animate as it's supposed to in OS X. They're fine in the open/save dialogs though.

http://localhostr.com/files/819994/fx.mov

http://localhostr.com/files/fce799/safari.mov

The tabs in the preferences are very outdated. They should be using the standard OS X window tabs.

Good (safari) :

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Bad:

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They're also using some ugly Windows style combo boxes instead of native ones.

Good (safari):

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Bad:

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Lack of rounded contextual menus:

Firefox v Safari

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Still an awesome browser though for the features it offers over the competition. (Y)

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