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How to Unify Firefox (On Mac) (More Details)
Ok so after some prodding on my dad’s part, I’ve decided to (try to) show everyone how to unify their Firefoxes like I have.
First off, if you’re not using a mac, you’re on your own. I’m almost positive the base skin I start with is not windows-compatible, so you’re screwed.
So here’s the grand list of all modifications I’ve made to Firefox:
- The base theme to install: GrApple (UNO). This gives you the basic Safari buttons and everything.
- The contents of my UserChrome.css are here (just save that file to ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/xxxxxx.default/chrome).
- Place these 3 images in the above folder:
- Place this search plugin in the ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/xxxxxx.default/searchplugins folder. This adds the Google Image Search plugin to the searchbar, and hopefully uses the magnifying glass as it’s icon…
- Install Fission (for the address bar loading, safari-style) and Stop-or-Reload Button (to swap the stop and reload buttons, safari-style).
If you do all of the above, you should get my unified Firefox. I also did a few things in the about:config window, but they were all performance things. Check it out
So try it out (at your own risk), and tell me if something is broken! 😀
Firefox Unification: Complete
That, my friends, is an image of Firefox. I took it about a minute ago. Firefox Unification is now complete, as I figured out how to skin the tab bar. It required a third image, but hey, it looks fricken’ sweet.
I will probably continue modding it, get that active tab more blended, remove that tab bar menu, but it’s completely unified now. 🙂
Leopard Videos
The developers who were at the WWDC received beta copies of OS X Leopard, so they could start developing for it. Some developers were good, and kept it to themselves. Others released screenshots that they weren’t supposed to. Others actually released the OS itself onto the internet.
This guy decided to post some videos of it in action. You can see Spaces, Time Machine, Stacks, the new screensavers (cool stuff), and a lot more.
Cleaning Out the Bookmarks Menu
In preparation for Eve’s 1st birthday (this Wednesday), I’ve been doing some cleaning up. One stage of that is getting all my programs to match (thus the craziness with skin modification in Firefox, etc.). Another part of the cleaning was wiping out all the stuff I never use from my bookmarks menu in Firefox. Before cleaning, the menu almost touched the bottom on my 1680×1050 monitor, and had one of those scrollies on my 1400×900. Now that I cleaned it out, I have 10 items on the list, and 2 folders. Impressive, I think.
Speaking of bookmarks I never use any more, anyone know what happened to Chugworth, the awesome webcomic I used to check loyally daily? It’s been down for like a month but I’m reluctant to remove it from my bar because I love it so much…
How to Unify Firefox (On Mac)
If you want to have my unified Firefox (as discussed in my previous post):
toolbar.png
toolbar2.png
This should give you a nice unified Firefox 🙂
(Note: Since I haven’t gotten the whole tab bar thing worked out yet, it helps to just disable the tab bar if only one tab is open. This can be done from the prefs for Firefox)
Modding GrApple (UNO)
I recently became sick of my mods (I knew this would happen), so I disabled ShapeShifter and reverted to default Aqua. This is very refreshing, but I like UNO way too much to disable it. The only thing is that Firefox isn’t unified by UNO (or I don’t think it is, I can’t open UNO any more because it claims it only works with Tiger 4.4 and up, even though I have 4.10…), so I went and looked for a unified theme, and lo and behold, I found GrApple (UNO) (scroll ot the bottom to get it). A theme specifically made to match UNO. However, upon installing it I discovered that it doesn’t really look like the picture, and doesn’t really do a good job unifying Firefox. So I did the fix he suggests, and it still didn’t look great. So I figured out how to haxx it myself.
I went into the chrome folder and looked at the toolbar.gif file it had told me to put there:
This is not enough of a gradient to blend properly, so what I did was opened a finder window, and took a screenshot of the toolbar:
And this almost completely fixed it. The main window blends until it gets to the bookmarks bar, where it turns a flat gray:
Update: I have now fixed the bookmarks bar to blend as well:
However the Tab Bar now has the same problem…so I don’t know what to do.
Great Minkata Map
Found this great Minkata Map while browsing around, and great instructions for how to use it. It really helped find the 4th cave, since it shows the shortcut there. 😀
Spleen Archive – New Buttons
The Spleen Archives has made some snazzy new buttons, check ’em out:
Those are all custom buttons, which he made with Photoshop Fireworks CS3.
Upgraded the Site
I’ve upgraded the blog to WordPress 2.2. Apparently K2 (the theme I use) doesn’t work with 2.2 yet, because of the new widget system. I had to disable the cool new widgets to maintain the blog’s look (which I really like), but yeah. The solution is here:
Forum topic on K2+WP2.2