Firefox 4.0 Mockup Theme

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Ugh, I can't edit my posts any more.

Ok so, the web developer toolbar is causing black behind the tabs and bookmarks, could there be any fix to this apart from turning it off as I really need this addon but love this theme!

Try this, https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?show...amp;p=591326888

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We highjacked dert07's 3.7 Mockup thread while there was this perfectly good thread here dedicated to SpewBoy's 4.0 mockup...

So I'm copying some of the bug reports from there to here.

-Status bar and tab bar are not flush with the browser window... by about one or 2 pixels.

I would personally sacrifice the slight transparency to have a flush statusbar... I actually find the statusbar misalignment something of an eye-sore [tab-bar not so much].. Or course it would all be solved if Firefox did something like Chrome's statusbar. :)

post-71595-1252794976.jpg

I've also made a working mockup of a better small icon Forward/Back navigation buttons

smallnavsuggestion.jpg

One final bug that I don't have a mock-up for happens on pop-up windows. The navigation bar has an ugly black background, meant to be converted to glass aero I'm guessing.

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We highjacked dert07's 3.7 Mockup thread while there was this perfectly good thread here dedicated to SpewBoy's 4.0 mockup...

So I'm copying some of the bug reports from there to here.

-Status bar and tab bar are not flush with the browser window... by about one or 2 pixels.

I would personally sacrifice the slight transparency to have a flush statusbar... I actually find the statusbar misalignment something of an eye-sore [tab-bar not so much].. Or course it would all be solved if Firefox did something like Chrome's statusbar. :)

post-71595-1252794976.jpg

I've also made a working mockup of a better small icon Forward/Back navigation buttons

smallnavsuggestion.jpg

One final bug that I don't have a mock-up for happens on pop-up windows. The navigation bar has an ugly black background, meant to be converted to glass aero I'm guessing.

thanks. you forgot:

no progress favicon for tabs when a page is loading

http://uploads.neowin.net/forum/post-71595-1252795060.jpg

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r0bc

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I do get a throbber on the tabs with Strata40... could it be TMP?

Regarding the "bad" left and right overflow arrows there was a Stylish fix from somebody in one of the comments on SpewBoy's DeviantArt page - sorry I didn't note the name. Here's the code

.scrollbutton-up
{
margin-right: -6px !important;
}

.scrollbutton-down
{
margin-left: -5px !important;
}

And finally, about the 1-pixel "error" both on the tabbar and the statusbar, see the comments (one by myself) on SpewBoy's DeviantArt page: it seems (I tried myself) that it is not possible with CSS to draw anything ON the frame, just inside, which causes those bars to be "too short" since they cannot overlap the window border.

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And finally, about the 1-pixel "error" both on the tabbar and the statusbar, see the comments (one by myself) on SpewBoy's DeviantArt page: it seems (I tried myself) that it is not possible with CSS to draw anything ON the frame, just inside, which causes those bars to be "too short" since they cannot overlap the window border.

Yeah. I don't mind the tab-bar, but the statusbar is a little on the the ugly side because of this... heck, the transparency on it is so low, that it's hardly noticeable, so it should just be like the one from glasser which is within the window frame so it has the same frame.

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r0bc

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It's a Personal Menu issue with Strata40. Quoting from SpewBoy's DeviantArt page http://spewboy.deviantart.com/art/Strata40-v0-4-3-132191373:

To fix the Personal Menu text bug (unrelated to my theme) do one of the following:

- In Personal Menu's advanced options tab make sure "Show temporarily by pressing ALT key" is unchecked.

- Download and use Firefox 3.6 or 3.7 and uncheck "Hide menu bar" in Personal Menu's options tab. Right click on the menu bar to hide it and press ALT to show it by default.

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r0bc

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I created an add-on that adds a page and tools toolbar button along with a home button to the tabs. Anyone interested? Here is what it looks like.

Why not? give us a download link :)

A couple questions: I've been playing with PermaTabs and Faviconize tab to obtain the same result; it needs some tweaking but the result is indistinguishable from the "real thing", so to speak ;) What still needs to be done is that FF cannot start without a page, the options are to open the home, blank or the tabs from the last session. Having the home page already loaded by permatab, I actually have TWO pages open unless I choose to open the last session tabs AND remember to close all tabs before closing FF... Does your addon have issues like that? or it simply opens the default home page AFTER the home tab?

Also, I've grown accustomed to Personal Menu for Bookmarks and History, are there any incompatibilities with it? but then maybe it won't really be needed with the page and tools buttons.

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Why not? give us a download link :)

My home button addon acts just like the home toolbar button. You can single click to open in the current tab or middle click to open in a new tab. The page and tools are just extra toolbar buttons. They do not interfere with Personal Menu at all. I created it so I could have almost 1:1 look with the original mockups.

I wouldn't try to hide Bookmarks Toolbar from my tools menu, for some reason it seems to cause some problems with glasser enabled. Well download it and tell me if it works well for you. Its very much a work in progress though.

If you have tabs on top you need this extra code:

.home-tab-button {
margin-bottom: -4px !important;}

Addons.zip

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r0bc

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Ah OK, then it's a button, not the home page already open... but I had understood it actually was the opened home tab, simply with a narrower home, not actually a button :blink: but maybe I didn't read carefully the mockup info. They actually talked about the home TAB, not the home BUTTON in the tab bar... I've always kept the home page opened in the first tab long before they even started talking about that, so I automatically thought it that way.

Edit: check here, Mozilla talks about

Home Button/Tab: Remove "Home" Button from default toolbar. Move functionality to a "Home Tab" containing your homepage.

...so the tab "contains" the home page, not just opens it in another tab (or the current one). I mean, with the standard layout we have 1 tab for the home page; with your addon we'd have the home "Tabbutton" ;) plus another tab, which in the end occupies more space than the default. The idea behind it, it seems, was to have the home page always available and for this reason occupying the least space. Thus it should be something like I obtained with Permatabs and Faviconize tab, shouldn't it? a "real" tab containing the home page, that opens at startup and cannot be closed.

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Ah OK, then it's a button, not the home page already open... but I had understood it actually was the opened home tab, simply with a narrower home, not actually a button :blink: but maybe I didn't read carefully the mockup info. They actually talked about the home TAB, not the home BUTTON in the tab bar... I've always kept the home page opened in the first tab long before they even started talking about that, so I automatically thought it that way.

Yea you're right, its supposed to be a permanent tab. I just don't know how to create something like that. So I created this button as an alternative.

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I've made a tab progress line userstyle for the Strata40 0.4.3 theme in line with the most recent 3.7 mockup (which will most likely carry over in 4.0, but they're currently focusing on 3.7 since it's in the middle of "crunch time" while 4.0 is very "pie in the sky"):

21240_before.png ---> 21240_after.png

Go get it: http://userstyles.org/styles/21240 :)

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r0bc

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Yea you're right, its supposed to be a permanent tab. I just don't know how to create something like that. So I created this button as an alternative.

Ah OK. As I said I did it with Permatabs and Faviconize tab, so actually it should reimplement something they already do

PermaTabs https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2558

Faviconize Tab https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3780

See here with your addon also

strata40plus2.png

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I've made a tab progress line userstyle for the Strata40 0.4.3 theme in line with the most recent 3.7 mockup (which will most likely carry over in 4.0, but they're currently focusing on 3.7 since it's in the middle of "crunch time" while 4.0 is very "pie in the sky"):

21240_before.png ---> 21240_after.png

Go get it: http://userstyles.org/styles/21240 :)

Is this meant to only work on inactive tabs? How would I alter this to also show on the current tab?

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