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Firefox Themes in an Overview
It’s amazing if you think about it. The new generation of web-browsers has become so flexible, so adaptable and so easy to use that you can design and use it according to your personal taste and needs. So if you are a Mozilla Firefox user, you can add almost any functionality you ever thought about via external extensions. Furthermore, you can also personalize your web-browser, changing its look with Firefox Themes. Thus you can let your browser have a fresh Vista look or appear like Opera, Internet Explorer or Mac-Browser. But which look can you choose to guarantee the most enjoyable browsing experience? Well, it’s a tough one.
In fact, there are many of them. We’ve selected some of the most beautiful Firefox Themes, which work in Firefox 2 and listed them below. Usually the changes concern not only the visual appearance and interface (icons and background colors), but also the functionality of the “adapted” Firefox – e.g. extensions. Links checked: June/26 2008.
Firefox Themes
myFireFox
Firefox appears to become Internet Explorer 7.
Pink Paula / PP 2
Firefox fur Madchen. Gibt es auch in Blau.
Red Cats (green flavor)
Phoenity
Classic.
Full with various plug-ins – Saferfox Xpanded, designed by Mankin Studios.
How can I install a Firefox Theme?
Just click on the selected theme on a web-site you can download it from, the Firefox changes its look immediately. Alternatively you can also drag the installer into the theme-window (”Tools” –> “Add-ons”). There you can activate or deactivate the theme.
Please keep in mind that not every theme works in every version of the Firefox browser.
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- 2February 28th, 2007 2:52 am
Mac Firefox users should also take a look at the GrApple themes at Aronnax’s Firefox Themes site.
- 3February 28th, 2007 3:33 am
thin article :|
most of the themes are simply ugly and everybody knows how to install a theme on FF…
- 4February 28th, 2007 4:19 am
add is right, most of the firefox themes are pretty much ugly – so i keep the default theme.
- 5February 28th, 2007 5:51 am
add-
No.
Not everybody knows how to install a theme on FF. In addition, there are those of us with cognitive/memory difficulties that need a quick, overview reference like this as a reminder for when we want to do it again in a month or 4 or 6. - 6February 28th, 2007 6:30 am
Wow great review of Firefox themes. Mozilla updates has a decent review of themes, but they don’t provide adequate usage of screen shots to actually see how the themes look.
Great article!
- 7February 28th, 2007 6:49 am
Isn’t this the list from http://www.drweb.de ?
See: http://www.drweb.de/weblog/weblog/?p=773
Do you steel articles???
typoblog.ch
- 8February 28th, 2007 10:27 am
How about adding the Tango theme?
It’s one of the classiest ones, in my opinion, and fits with the new Gnome (Linux Desktop Manager) look.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1565/ - 9February 28th, 2007 10:34 am
I have to go with typoblog.ch on this one… WAY to many similarities (cut and paste?) to let this one slide on by…
Shame for not at least referencing the original.
Shame.
- 10February 28th, 2007 11:10 am
Dont forget about PitchDark 2.0.0
I use it and love it.
- 11February 28th, 2007 11:52 am
I don’t understand why Noia is so popular. It’s one of the ugliest themes I’ve ever seen.
- 12February 28th, 2007 12:21 pm
is this a joke? i generally enjoy smashingmag quite a bit, but this article is terrible. most of these themes are downright fugly.
- 13February 28th, 2007 12:24 pm
ifox smooth is the only theme that is worth it. the rest are rather cheesy.
- 14February 28th, 2007 12:37 pm
Nothing beats your own gtkrc theme that modifies the Firefox Classic Default theme and the Thunderbird Default theme. Then a swapping of your favorite icons from a theme (Like Cylence:Obsidian) makes it even better.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=305603
It also feels light like the default themes.
- 15February 28th, 2007 12:57 pm
You know, firefox skins are available from other websites, not only from the main firefox site. Deviant Art offers some amazing firefox skins that are, in my opinion, much better than the ones currently on the mozilla site. Of course, there is no automatic installation, you have to use All-in-one sidebar in order to install themes from .jar files (The install button on the extension pane). I love the, currently in beta, Black Vista theme: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/44508564/
- 16February 28th, 2007 3:26 pm
# Sue Says:
February 28th, 2007 at 5:51 amadd-
No.
Not everybody knows how to install a theme on FF. In addition, there are those of us with cognitive/memory difficulties that need a quick, overview reference like this as a reminder for when we want to do it again in a month or 4 or 6.What Sue said and, for thems that may have it (add) and are unaware they do (umm, add)……
“Cognitive problems are difficulties in processing information, including such mental tasks as attention, thinking(add), and memory”.
Oh, I use Metal Lion.
choke
- 17February 28th, 2007 6:33 pm
Eww. I really appriciate the default theme now. Okay, some have nice icons, but.. c’mon, thats a rather boring article guys…
- 18February 28th, 2007 6:47 pm
Black japan,Ifox and Metal Lion for me….. rest all are too ugly to use.
- 19February 28th, 2007 7:30 pm
A better display of examples of the themes than you see at the Mozilla site.
One small niggle though, the thumbnail which claims to be for “Aluminium Kai” is actually a picture of “Acid Burn” which appears again lower down. I only noticed that because I liked the look of it and went to install it. - 20February 28th, 2007 7:49 pm
You’re missing a great one: iPox. Very smooth looking theme, very pretty.
- 21February 28th, 2007 8:19 pm
Interesting list. I will add ” whitehart ” theme which is very minimalist and deserves to be part of this list.
- 22February 28th, 2007 9:12 pm
Cool post!
- 23February 28th, 2007 10:45 pm
@typoblog.ch, Agent 942: probably you should compare the names of the authors of Smashing Magazine and the publishers of Dr. Web. ;)
- 24March 1st, 2007 12:36 am
@Vitaly Friedmann & Sven Lennartz:
Oh no. What did I do %)
Sorry to the authors. I really didn’t realize that you ARE also drweb.de…
Sorry for my previous comment!
- 25March 1st, 2007 5:47 am
Actually I use this one that is not compatible with Firefox 2 but is better than the other ported one: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/548/
- 26March 1st, 2007 5:53 am
Personally, I like the Mac OS style Brushed theme:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/548/I just disable add-on compatibility check and works perfectly fine with Firefox 2.0.0.2
- 27March 2nd, 2007 10:42 am
Thanx, I like iFox theme.
- 28March 3rd, 2007 12:39 am
I use Orbit Gray, myself
- 29March 3rd, 2007 1:32 am
Littlefox for me. I like getting more screen
- 30March 3rd, 2007 1:38 am
How about a “compact” theme that allows you to put stuff on the menu bar so that less screen real estate is left unused?
- 31March 5th, 2007 11:49 am
David, you already CAN do that. Right-click on the menu bar and click ‘customize’ and you can drag anything anywhere you want.
- 32March 18th, 2007 5:04 am
is this list a joke?
- 33June 24th, 2007 12:20 am
iFox Smooth forever !!!
- 34June 30th, 2007 5:09 pm
I like the kid’s theme, it’s amazing what we could do with a computer now !
- 35July 10th, 2007 11:46 pm
amalgam has yet to be updated but was my favorite… i wish the grapple guy would bust out some PC versions of his beautiful stuff
- 36August 21st, 2007 8:38 pm
I have been looking everywhere for “R” rated themes. I understand that you can make your own themes so surely someone has made some themes such as monsters or nudity. I plan on making my own but i haven’t had time to learn it yet.
- 37October 2nd, 2007 12:18 pm
I would love to see somebody update the “Simpler” themes that were available for older verions of firefox. I was in love with Simpler Green but I can’t use it anymore.
- 38October 5th, 2007 6:09 pm
My personal favorite is Red Shift V2.
- 39December 6th, 2007 2:44 pm
My personal favorite is Tinseltown!
- 40March 11th, 2008 1:16 pm
can we use safari theme in firefox?
- 41August 11th, 2008 4:13 pm
Do they work with he new FF3?
- 42November 23rd, 2008 12:00 pm
I must say, that’s a whole bunch of, well, to be kind, monsterous themes.
- 43December 2nd, 2008 3:51 am
3rd one from top is really good i jus loved it…few of dem r pretty much decent..very few look ugly..thank u so much
- 44March 5th, 2009 8:19 pm
Do they work with he new FF3?
- 45March 30th, 2009 1:48 am
Now fireFox is always NEW.
Thanks for sharing, nice collection
- 46April 19th, 2009 7:57 pm
The VERY best, most attractive theme is Aeon Colors! Most of the others are just Default theme clones, or mostly grey. Aeon Colors is imaginative and colourful. Try it!
- 47June 29th, 2009 4:08 pm
nice themes! thanks a lot
download :)
- 48September 21st, 2009 8:24 pm
Try Chromium Extreme-theme’s like that of Google chrome. OR if you want to personalize your theme/put background image of your choice try AnyColor.
- 49October 1st, 2009 4:09 am
Firefox themes are ugly!!! Soooooo Ugliiiiieeeeeeeeeeee
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Neato.. I aleady use iFox. You guys just validated that it was cool.