Firefox 2 theme for Firefox 3.x

The Firefox 2 theme for Firefox 3.x provides Firefox 3.x users the default Firefox 2 theme.

The theme is perfectly suited for all of the Firefox 3.x users which still think that Firefox 2 looked better than 3 and don't want to get used to the new look.

Firefox 2 theme for Firefox 3 in action

Install Theme Now!

Needs Javascript enabled. When asked allow the site www.varesano.net to install software (theme) on your computer.

For more informations visit Firefox 2 theme for Firefox 3.x homepage at addons.mozilla.org.

Issues? Bugs?

Feel free to add a comment here if have issues with the theme. In case you found a theme bug or a visual problem you can take a screenshot, post it to a free image hosting service and then post it here as a link.

Please do not write me emails as other users might have your same problems so let's make it public. Thanks!

Development

Development progresses are regularly published on a Bazaar repository. You can access them, once you installed Bazaar, using the following command:

bzr checkout http://repository.varesano.net/ff2-default/trunk "{fd2f951f-77ea-4938-9493-0c892c027a13}"

This will generate a folder called {fd2f951f-77ea-4938-9493-0c892c027a13}. To install the theme simply move it to the extensions folder located within your profile folder. Then restart firefox.

Once you have a checkout of the repository and you think that your copy is outdated, you can update your version to the latest version with

bzr update   #issued within the theme folder

You can see what the recent progresses have been with

bzr log -n0 http://repository.varesano.net/ff2-default/trunk

In case you want to see more informations on the progresses, you can access to more informations with

bzr log -n0 -v http://repository.varesano.net/ff2-default/trunk

Making your own modifications

If you want to make changes to the theme in a way that is "versioning software friendly" you have to convert your local checkout to a local branch with:

bzr unbind

Once you did so you'll be able to start modifying the code. Once you implement a new feature, fix a bug or anything else notable you can commit your changes to your local repository branch with:

bzr commit -m "Text describing your changes"

Once you did so you might want to share your modifications with me:

bzr send http://repository.varesano.net/ff2-default/trunk -o changes.patch

The above command will generate a file called changes.patch which will contains your modifications as well as your versions history, logs, etc. You can share it with me by simply mail the file to fvaresano at yahoo dot it.

If you have modified your local branch and you would like to update it to the last publicly available without loosing your modifications you can use:

bzr merge

Please, contact me if you need help with Bazaar or you want to actively contribute to the theme.

People

The theme, originally created by borr, it's now maintained by me. If you would like helping out in any way, please contact me!

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Wierd Full Screen Icon

Submitted by Andreas (not verified) on Tue, 2010-02-16 10:23.

First: Wonderful work on the theme.

Secondly: The button for full screen looks very wierd on my computer.

[inline:http://dl.dropbox.com/u/487142/fullscreen.jpg=Fullscreen]

Thanks for reporting this

Submitted by fabio on Tue, 2010-02-16 13:04.

Thanks for reporting this issue! That's pretty weird :-) ... I'll work on this one!

Compatability errors with Tab Mix Plus

Submitted by Szetsubou (not verified) on Fri, 2010-01-29 10:10.

Using version 0.9.7 seems to cause alot of problems with Tab Mix Plus and displaying multi-rows, amongst other errors.

http://tmp.garyr.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=39190

Absolutely love the theme by the way, always the first download anytime I install Firefox :)

Theme Bug: Missing Video Player Controls

Submitted by AaronCompNetSys (not verified) on Wed, 2009-12-16 21:11.

Visit any site with embedded video in the new Vorbis format, and the controls are blank. Example: http://adblockplus.org/en/
The default Fx 3.x theme has a darkened theme.
Thanks!

Thanks for reporting this. I

Submitted by fabio on Thu, 2009-12-17 09:43.

Thanks for reporting this. I already fixed this though. It will came in the next stable version of the theme. Meanwhile you can use the development version (see the instructions). Thanks again!

Style lacking for site identification button

Submitted by George (not verified) on Sat, 2009-11-14 01:27.

I use the theme on Ubuntu. Since upgrading from Firefox 3.0 to 3.5, I have a problem.

When accessing a secure site (HTTPS), a button appears in the address bar, right next to the favicon. This button identifies the website and allows for certificate verification.

For websites with "high assurance" certificates, the button is green and contains the name of the company. For regular certificates, the button contains the domain and it should be blue.

My problem is that the blue styling seems to be missing from the theme, so the button just looks like regular text in front of the URL.

Perhaps screenshots would make the matter easier to understand. Would you like me to send them?

Yes, please upload them to

Submitted by fabio on Sat, 2009-11-14 02:20.

Yes, please upload them to http://imageshack.us/ or any free image hosting website then post your links here. Thanks.

Actually, I fixed it myself.

Submitted by George (not verified) on Sat, 2009-11-14 02:49.

Actually, I fixed it myself. I will send you a patch and screenshots shortly.

Thanks, your patch has been

Submitted by fabio on Sat, 2009-11-14 12:03.

Thanks, your patch has been committed and will be published in the next stable version of the theme! Thanks for your help

You can see the logs with:

bzr log -n0 -v http://repository.varesano.net/ff2-default/trunk

Different Size Window for Bookmarking a Page in Firefox 3.5

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 2009-10-27 04:02.

The only problem that I have encountered is the width of the window that pops up when you bookmark a page in Firefox 3.5. The Firefox 2 theme makes the window much smaller in Firefox 3.5 as compared to Firefox 3.0.x. This makes choosing which folder you would like to place your bookmark very difficult since I can't see my folder names clearly. I have screenshots but I don't know how to upload them on here. I can email them to you if you like.

Yes, please mail them to

Submitted by fabio on Tue, 2009-10-27 08:48.

Yes, please mail them to fvaresano at yahoo dot it. Thanks!

Screen captures have been sent.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 2009-10-29 02:44.

Thanks again for looking into this.

Different Size Window for Bookmarking a Page in Firefox 3.5

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 2009-12-17 06:24.

I sent you some screen shot a few months ago. Did you ever figure out why there is a different size window for bookmarking a page in Firefox 3.5? Will it be fixed in a later release?

Yes, I already worked on

Submitted by fabio on Thu, 2009-12-17 09:46.

Yes, I already worked on that. Expect a fix on the next stable release. Thanks!

Mac OS Version

Submitted by modinog (not verified) on Sat, 2009-10-24 07:03.

I absolutely love the theme, but while version 0.9.6 beta 1 is functional on the Mac OS version of the Firefox, it uses the Firefox 2 Windows iconset. I am currently using the test version 0.1.1 that was from the original "Firefox 2 theme for firefox 3 beta" extension, and was wondering if there will be a new version with the Mac iconset.

Thanks for your comment and

Submitted by fabio on Sat, 2009-10-24 09:04.

Thanks for your comment and for using the theme.

Unfortunately I don't have any Macs around.. that's why developing for Mac OS is pretty a problem.

In the past I used an Hackintosh to test the theme but it never been stable so I finally stopped using that.

So, until I find a usable Mac system I'll not be able to work a lot on the Mac version of the theme.

As usual, any code contribution or any help will be very welcome.

luvin the theme

Submitted by adam (not verified) on Thu, 2009-10-22 03:08.

luvin the theme its my favourite for firefox

quick question ive recently upgraded os to win7 noticed its made a small change to the vertical line indentation to the drop down menus.

also my only suggestion more of a request is to have blue or black two-tuned back and forward icons.

Never the less big Thank you on this theme, saved me a bit of hassle of doing the same thing myself!

Regards.

Thanks for your moral

Submitted by fabio on Thu, 2009-10-22 17:37.

Thanks for your moral support.
The win 7 menu problem should be fixed in next 0.9.6.

You can try 0.9.6 from
http://www.varesano.net/blog/fabio/firefox%202%20theme%20firefox%203x%20...

I'm not sure on what you mean for the back and forward icons. Would you please elaborate more?

Small issue in Firefox 3.5.2

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 2009-09-07 10:25.

Small issue in Firefox 3.5.2 on linux:

In the privacy pane of the preferences window, if you have the dropdown menu set to either "Remember history" or "Never remember history", the links that appear below it to clear your history are no longer blue and underlined, as in the default theme.

In the DOM inspector, with the theme disabled, these links have the following css rules applied to them from chrome://browser/skin/preferences/preferences.css

.inline-link {
color: -moz-nativehyperlinktext;
text-decoration: underline;
}

.inline-link:not(:focus) {
outline-color: transparent;
outline-style: dotted;
outline-width: 1px;
}

With the theme active, these rules are gone, and the links appear just like ordinary text, although clicking on them still works.

Thanks dude. Implemented in

Submitted by fabio on Sat, 2009-09-12 07:39.

Thanks dude. Implemented in the theme: it will came in 0.9.6. Thanks!

menu items

Submitted by ionut (not verified) on Fri, 2009-08-28 17:21.

hey,

i posted on the themes official firefox add-on page the problems menu items are having when displaying. here are screenshots of these issues:

http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/3640/bookmarks.jpg
http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/2824/contextmenu.jpg
http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/1238/edith.jpg
http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/893/filebjl.jpg
http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/9749/helpz.jpg
http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/2867/historyc.jpg
http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/2773/moretools.jpg
http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/9893/toolss.jpg
http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/593/viewg.jpg

there are some items missing because i make use of the menu editor add-on.

these issues are also present in the organize bookmarks window.

Hi, unfortunately I'm unable

Submitted by fabio on Sun, 2009-08-30 13:41.

Hi, unfortunately I'm unable to replicate this issue on my local Win XP machine. Do you use some particular Win theme or setting which might effects this?

i'm running windows vista

Submitted by Ionut (not verified) on Sun, 2009-08-30 21:11.

i'm running windows vista sp1

i have been running it for over 8 months now and have made some tweaks to it, but none relating to its appearance.

i'm surprised you weren't aware of this. surely there are some other people with vista that tried this skin so how come no one's complained until now? i hope it's not because of some of the settings my OS has. i would love it if someone running vista would give a shout on the matter.

Finally get a VM with Vista

Submitted by fabio on Sat, 2009-09-12 13:21.

Finally get a VM with Vista on it. Now I'm able to test the theme also on Vista.

Making a theme compatible with each OS is really hard.

Anyway, the menu problem has been fixed in the last commit: you can get revision 11 from the repository or wait version 0.9.6.

Thanks

okay, i have the development theme.. how do i use it?

Submitted by Joshua Rodman (not verified) on Tue, 2009-08-25 16:58.

I use a mac. I prefer the firefox 2 theme, but it doesn't work properly (as you know).

You suggest using the version from bazaar. I installed bazaar and grabbed the current trunk. It looks vaguely like a complete theme in there, but there's no README in the distribution or here on how to install it.

I'm a developer, but I'm not a Firefox developer. I could probably investigate how to create an xpi out of the theme files and feed it into Firefox, but my first 15 minutes of investigation haven't gotten me an answer.

It would be a nice touch if you could add, at the end of the bazaar steps, the briefest of descriptions on the steps to use it. I'd recommend putting that text in version control as well, myself.

Thanks much for all your already existing work improving on a good idea.

You have two options: use bzr

Submitted by fabio on Tue, 2009-08-25 18:02.

You have two options:

use bzr create an export of the theme directory:

bzr export --format=zip --root=.  ff2-default.jar
(issued from the trunk directory you have just downloaded)

Then an installable file called ff2-default.jar will be created.install the theme manually.

The other option would be to find the profile folder on your sistem. Within the extensions folder create a new folder called {fd2f951f-77ea-4938-9493-0c892c027a13} and copy all the contents of the trunk folder you downloaded to the newly created folder. Be careful with copying also the hidden files (those starting with dot).

The advantage of the second procedure is that you will be able to update the theme to the last development version available even if the theme is installed.

I'll insert these instruction into the web page and an README file.

Thanks for your contribution.

Hmm this

Submitted by Joshua Rodman (not verified) on Mon, 2009-09-14 22:19.

Hmm this produces:

Error:
Firefox could not install the file at

file:///Users/jrodman/software/trunk/ff2-default.jar

because: Install script not found
-204

New Tab button gone missing

Submitted by Ambular2 (not verified) on Tue, 2009-08-25 00:36.

The latest update appears to have made my New Tab button vanish. I am running Firefox 3.0.13 with Windows XP Home SP 3.

The new tab button is

Submitted by fabio on Tue, 2009-08-25 08:47.

The new tab button is disabled in versions 0.9.5 .. I already implemented the newtab button in the development version, which will give this feature in next version 0.9.6.

You can wait for version 0.9.6 (a couple of weeks) or you can get the development version using bazaar.

Thanks !

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 2009-08-24 06:42.

I was waiting for new version anxiously. I don't like theme from FF3. Please keep this theme up to date :)

disappearances, changes, and altogether missings

Submitted by Amy (not verified) on Tue, 2009-08-11 02:58.

I've had three problems for the longest time, and I'm rather certain they all stem from this theme. (I'm running Mac OS X 10.4, btw.) If I hover the mouse over a tab's close X, it disappears so long as the cursor remains there. When doing this the site-specific favicon to its left changes to a dog-eared page icon, and it remains so ever after the cursor is moved. Also, the scroll bars are missing entirely. They still function, but it's very annoying to not know how long is a page or how far to the right it extends because you can't see them.

I've been able to get my

Submitted by fabio on Mon, 2009-08-24 15:22.

I've been able to get my hands on a Mac OS system. I already fixed some of the Mac problems. Notably the disappearing scrollbars.

This fixes will came in version 0.9.6 and higher.

If you are a Mac user and want to access the features immediately you can get a development copy of the theme using Bazaar. See the commands above.

Yes, I'm aware of the Mac

Submitted by fabio on Tue, 2009-08-11 10:53.

Yes, I'm aware of the Mac problems. Unfortunately I don't have any macs here.. so I'm unable to fix this problems. Under Windows and Linux the theme should work without problems.

If anyone is interested in helping me with the Mac support please contact me!

Thank you.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 2009-07-19 04:37.

Some minor issues I encountered with white text in the menu bar and ticks not showing properly:

http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/9208/firefox2theme094b.png

Apart from that it's been working like a charm ;)

Thanks!

I just found the fix for the

Submitted by fabio on Mon, 2009-07-27 09:49.

I just found the fix for the white text on menu texts. Following the relevant code, paste it in the browser.css file of your theme install or wait the next version.


menubar > menu[_moz-menuactive="true"],
menubar > menu[_moz-menuactive="true"][open="true"] {
  color: -moz-menubarhovertext; /* Fix white text on menus */ 
}

Unfortunately the fix above

Submitted by fabio on Mon, 2009-07-27 15:09.

Unfortunately the fix above only worked well on Windows.. The menu bar text disappears on mouse over under Linux.

I changed that to the following on Linux, let's hope it works well on Windows as well.

menubar > menu[_moz-menuactive="true"],
menubar > menu[_moz-menuactive="true"][open="true"] {
  color: MenuText !important;  /* Fix white text on menus */ 
}

I just fixed the ticks not

Submitted by fabio on Mon, 2009-07-27 09:32.

I just fixed the ticks not showing problem on my development version. The following code fixed that, you can paste it at the bottom of browser.css within the theme directory.

This fix will come on the next theme version, which will be released once some other problems are solved.

/* ::::: checkbox and radio menuitems ::::: */

menuitem[type="checkbox"],
menuitem[checked="true"] {
  -moz-appearance: checkmenuitem;
}
menuitem[type="checkbox"] > .menu-iconic-left,
menuitem[checked="true"] > .menu-iconic-left {
  -moz-appearance: menucheckbox;
  padding-top: 0px;
}

menuitem[type="radio"] {
  -moz-appearance: radiomenuitem;
}
menuitem[type="radio"] > .menu-iconic-left {
  -moz-appearance: menuradio;
  padding-top: 0px;
}

menuitem[type="checkbox"] > .menu-iconic-left > .menu-iconic-icon,
menuitem[checked="true"] > .menu-iconic-left > .menu-iconic-icon,
menuitem[type="radio"] > .menu-iconic-left > .menu-iconic-icon {
  /* prevent .menu-iconic-icon from enforcing a minimal height of 16px (see bug 411064)
     XXXzeniko apply that .menu-iconic-icon rule only for children of .menu-iconic */
  display: none;
}

Some more issues...

Submitted by freddy (not verified) on Wed, 2009-07-15 23:06.

Here is some more issues i found in Windows XP, I will test this theme in Ubuntu when all this issues and the issues already reported are fixed in the upcoming version(s):

1. http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/4600/44059982.jpg
2. http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/8400/screenshot2y.png
3. http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/6926/screenshot3omd.png
4. This one happens hovering the mouse on the buttons "Organize", "Views" and "Import and Backup":
http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/7186/screenshot4f.png

4. Fixed. Coming into next

Submitted by fabio on Mon, 2009-07-27 17:06.

3. Fixed. Coming into next version.

Firefox 2.0.0.14 Portable

Submitted by freddy (not verified) on Wed, 2009-07-15 23:33.

Heres a portable version of Firefox 2.0.0.14 from portableapps.com: https://sourceforge.net/projects/portableapps/files/Mozilla%20Firefox%2C...

To help you guide and to make it more of a 1:1 theme :)

Missing stuff from the 2.0 theme

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 2009-07-15 16:12.

1. The drop down menu should be change in order to look like Firefox 2.0 theme:
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/2456/24065807.jpg

2. The back and forward buttons drop down menu should be on both buttons and not on only one like Firefox 3.+:
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/6675/14254244.jpg

3. The search box button (magnifying glass) needs to change to look like Firefox 2.0 theme. Also the loading icon needs to be added:
http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/3797/85103418.jpg

4. The RSS icon in the addressbar needs to be change to the one used on Firefox 2.0 theme. I think the Firefox 2.0 RSS icon is used on other parts of the theme but not in the addressbar for example in the organize booksmarks window and when you add a rss to the toolbar:
http://img60.imageshack.us/img60/2365/84600557.jpg