My First Firefox Theme

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by KLB, Oct 30, 2006.

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    Well this afternoon I got my first Firefox theme approved and added to Mozilla's add-ons site (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3699/).

    This isn't the first theme I've created, but it is the first time I've shared it with others. If there is one thing I don't like about themes, skins, etc. is when they waste desktop real estate so when Firefox 2.0 came out the first thing I set out to do was to take Firefox's new "Classic" theme and squeeze every pixel of wasted space out of it creating my "Classic Compact" theme (see attached screen shots). Since my goal was simply to compress the classic theme, not change the look, I did not change any of the graphic files in the theme.

    Basically I took the default "Classic" theme, which uses 134 pixels of vertical space for the menu, address, bookmark, tab and status bars and squeezed them down to 108 pixels of vertical space. If one turns off the bookmark bar as I do, my theme uses as little as 86 pixels of vertical space (plus the space consumed by the "title bar" which is controlled by the OS).

    I think I could squeeze maybe 2-4 pixels pixels out of the theme, but not without starting to hurt the appearance of the classic theme.

    So if you are a Firefox user who appreciates the conservation of desktop space as much as I do, go to https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3699/, give my theme a try and tell me what you think. If you like it, please make sure and vote the theme a high ranking on the add-on site.

    Oh for those who get just as annoyed as I do about losing themes and extensions on browser updates, I have already downloaded and tested my theme Firefox 3.0a1 and reflected this in my theme's maxversion. As a result you won't have to worry about updates to Firefox disabling my theme until at least Firefox 3.0. :cool:
     

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  2. mike88

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    interesting.. downloaded now, will give it a try :)
     
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  3. revsorg

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    Cool - I've got it installed now
     
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    I think it's good. But I haven't yet install it untill now.
     
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  5. KLB

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    I'm glad you guys liked it. I added some designer's comments to my theme page containing some "about:config" tweaks that can further optimize space used by Firefox's address and tab bar.

    Oh, if folks install the theme, please make sure to leave a comment and give it a rating of 5. - Thanks.

    BTW: at last check my theme had been downloaded 1961 times since it was uploaded less than 24 hours ago. :cool:
     
    KLB, Oct 31, 2006 IP