It seems like everyone has a bone to pick with Mozilla’s new Firefox 2 theme but who do you tell? Asa Dotzler posted on his blog that he wants to hear your opinion. He said “I haven’t had the time to look for opinions outside of the regular watering holes, but so far it looks like the nos are outnumbering the yeas.“
I think the theme blends in well with Windows Vista because of the glossy icons, but if you use the classic Windows theme then it starts to look a little out of place. One person in the comments said that on a Mac it is not a “visual refresh”, instead it is a “visual disaster.” Another person went on to say that the Home icon looks like a refreshed Netscape 3 icon.
If you haven’t gotten around to trying out Firefox 2 Beta 2 then head on over to their download page, or you can use the portable version that I have put together.
So do you like the new theme or is this going to be something that you switch immediately after installation?
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I don’t know which one I like most, I haven’t tried the new one yet.
I have a theory about GUIs: sometimes, they are too much of a good thing and you’ll want to switch back to the good old classic one. I, for example, prefer the default XP theme over the one that Vista comes preinstalled with. That GUI is just too much of a good thing.
i love it.
I love the Firefox 2 theme – it makes me feel I’m using something new and more impressive than the previous version. They should keep it and offer the old one as a theme that comes with the package so that the whining old dotes can feel truly past the times.
I think it’s fine. They should definitely put the previous one as a theme selection that comes with the installation. You shouldn’t have to download it. I don’t know what is the problem with the new theme but I don’t typically use the default theme anyway. I have a bunch of themes I’ve downloaded that I rotate regularly.
I like the theme, just not the home button, the red door makes it look likes the devils house. Cant use beta 2, half my plug ins stop working
Back/forward icons and rollovers suck. Hovering over icons is barely noticeable. Some pixel details look bad. Other than that, pretty good so far.
I actually love the new theme myself. They do need to take care of the people that don’t handle change very easily. I do have to say that the tabs look much nicer in the latest nightly build than they do in Beta 2.
I think you’re right. I’m sure it will end up being like XP and Vista where they still offer people the option to switch back to the classic theme.
The door was originally blue but I think they changed it because it didn’t stand out enough.
May be I haven’t used Beta 2 all that much, but the theme doesn’t bother me.
Create a new about:config entry
All of your extensions may not work properly.
add this to your userChrome.css -
extensions.checkCompatibility and set its value to false.
Now there’ll be a yellow bar in the addons window telling you that compatibility checking is disabled. If you find that annoying
#addonsMsg {display: none !important;
}
As for the new theme I’d like [bugzilla.mozilla.org] solved.
A word of advice to all, don’t force or use the Download Manager Tweak extension, it will break your ‘Options’ window.
extensions.checkCompatibility works great thanks.
That compatibility tweak is pretty nice and maybe I’ll start using that instead of the Nightly Tester Tools. Hey, one less extension should cut down on memory usage a little.
I currently use Download Status Bar and I luckily don’t have any problems. It is one of my favorite extensions!