Best Firefox 4 Theme

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There have been a few themes that have been developed using the mockups Mozilla made for Firefox 4.0. What’s funny is that while Firefox 4.0 is over a year away you can already get the same beautiful design without having to wait.

As you can see in the screenshot above the theme is extremely close to this particular mockup from Mozilla. Unfortunately, however, there are a few things that you have to install other than just a theme in order to get the full affect. The good news is that the theme developer outlines all of the different things you’ll want depending on exactly how far you want to go:

  • Strata40 – This is pretty essential… because it’s the theme itself.
  • StrataGlass – Needed for Aero glass effects on Windows 7/Vista.
  • Personal Menu – Needed for tools and bookmarks toolbar buttons. I noticed that if you hide the Menu bar that you’ll want to disable the ability to press the Alt key to quickly display the toolbar. If you don’t there is a small group of text that isn’t properly hidden by the theme.
  • Omnibar – Not essential but great for using the address bar for searching instead of the search box. You’ll probably want this because the theme seems to have a little bit of troubles if you have the search box displayed. Our CyberSearch add-on may also be handy in this respect.
  • Fission – Needed for “progress line” feature. Shows the page’s loading progress as a small line below the address bar.
  • The mockups also include a tabs on top version. If you would like a tabs on top version install an addon called Stylish, and then install this style.

It may sound like a lot of work, but I was actually able to get it all setup in less than 5-minutes. And there’s no need to say that I’ve had several people ask what browser I’m using when they’ve seen me running this.

Strata40 Firefox Theme [via ghacks]

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September 17th, 2009 Written by
  1. M1keSeptember 17, 2009 at 7:51 am

    Nice find, but how do I get the tab bar to go above the navigation bar?

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    • moopenguin32September 18, 2009 at 10:33 am

      Install the Stylish extension and then install the Tabs on Top style. Both are linked in the last bullet in the article.

  2. moopenguin32September 18, 2009 at 10:34 am

    One thing I’ve found is that with Windows XP, a small part of the new tab button is cut off on the left side. A minor annoyance, but there none the less.

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    • RyanAuthorSeptember 20, 2009 at 2:24 am

      Interesting. I’m guessing the developer was only focusing on Vista/Windows 7 support and so that could have been an oversight. If you let him know maybe he’ll fix it.

  3. BobJune 15, 2010 at 10:13 pm

    Well there’s a new mock-up that lets you get the Firefox 4 them in a few seconds with out all this. its called Strata Buddy

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  4. pittySeptember 3, 2010 at 3:13 pm

    this is not available fo firefox 4…

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  5. TinManOctober 28, 2010 at 5:01 pm

    Stylish is currently not available for FF4.0b6, although you could extract the files, edit the max-version, re-zip the extension and it should work…

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  6. mattFebruary 16, 2011 at 3:30 pm

    you can now get Firefox 4 beta which will be the best web browser for ages as it combines firefox and chrome together

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  7. AnonymousMay 10, 2011 at 1:42 am

    I really don’t understand why people just don’t use Google Chrome.. Firefox is a good back up and IE is always a last resort.. But seriously why deal with the bugs and problems that other browsers have? Your call, I don’t care.
    ~J

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  8. eliasMay 13, 2011 at 3:02 am

    ill tell u why ppl dont use google chrome
    my frnd is a hcaker he warned me from google chrome he said he have very simple program any hacker able to hack into ur pc and blah blah blaaah ……….

    and he hacked to my pc to prove it >_<

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