The latest hourly build of Firefox 2 now has the new theme implemented for the tabs as well. Here is a comparison of the Firefox 2 Beta 1 theme to the most current one available:
Firefox 2 Beta 1 (click image to enlarge):
Most current build (click image to enlarge):
In both images from left to right: background tab, hovering over a background tab with a mouse, current tab. You can definitely see that the new theme definitely makes the current tab stand out. The ”red X” also fits in a little better with the whole Web 2.0 thing since it has the glossy effect to it.
I have also put together a portable version of the hourly build which has the new theme it. All you have to do is download the Firefox Portable file. Then you unzip the file and browse for the file FirefoxPortable.exe. Just execute that file and you will be running Firefox 2 with the new Visual Refresh theme! The profile is kept with the FirefoxPortable folder so you don’t have to worry about messing up your other profile and the uninstallation process is simple…just delete the folder!
Remember, if you don’t like the new theme then you can always get the old one back by going here. I really like it and I noticed that they changed the color of the door on the house that is located next to the address bar. When the new buttons were implemented before the door was blue. Minor detail. 
Just downloaded this and loaded my profile into it, but I’m having some trouble. When I have my regular installed Firefox 1.5.0.6 open, I used to be able to open FirefoxPortable2 (Beta 1) alongside it. Now, it says that another instance of Firefox is running, and I’m only able to open one or the other. Do you know why this is so?
Well, to make a long story short the developer of Firefox Portable had contacted me and said that I wasn’t allowed to distribute it with the “Multiple Instances” option enabled. He has been working with Mozilla because of trademark issues (hence the name change to Firefox Portable).
If you want to make it possible to run multiple instances it is pretty easy. Follow [tech.cybernetnews.com] that I put together awhile ago and anywhere that it says “PortableFirefox” just replace it with “FirefoxPortable”. Number 1 on the list needs to be set to true, and if you want to disable the splash screen you can do that by setting number 3 to true.
Let me know if you need any clarification.
-Ryan
looking forward to getting my nightly build notification.
Hey Max,
I guess I didn’t think of the obvious thing for you to do. If you still have the old Firefox Portable Beta 1 folder you can copy the FirefoxPortable.ini file from that one, which is located in the same directory as FirefoxPortable.exe, and paste it into the same directory of the version you just downloaded. That way you don’t have to really configure the file, although it might come in handy to know that at sometime.
-Ryan
One thing I would really like to see…
Is that *Wasted Space* to the right of *Help* filled in with some of these “Extensions”…
There is no need to take up more space if there is some that can be used…
Go Figure…
I didn’t like the wasted space either which is why [tech.cybernetnews.com]
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-Ryan
Thanks for the tip. This worked.
*mutters* linking to the hourly tinderbox ([developer.mozilla.org]) again are we? ..when if you must get casual Firefox users using nightlies the [ftp.mozilla.org] will be much much safer.
The current Aug.17 has the annoying tabbar where it is a light colour for Windows/Linux users no matter the OS theme so I manually went back to the Aug.16 nightly until this is fixed.
At the time I had to link to the hourly Tinderbox because it was not in the nightly yet.
-Ryan