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.
Haungo
February 28th, 2007 2:45 amNeato.. I aleady use iFox. You guys just validated that it was cool.
Bill
February 28th, 2007 2:52 amMac Firefox users should also take a look at the GrApple themes at Aronnax’s Firefox Themes site.
add
February 28th, 2007 3:33 amthin article :|
most of the themes are simply ugly and everybody knows how to install a theme on FF…
larsen
February 28th, 2007 4:19 amadd is right, most of the firefox themes are pretty much ugly – so i keep the default theme.
Sue
February 28th, 2007 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.
Jonathan
February 28th, 2007 6:30 amWow 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!
typoblog.ch
February 28th, 2007 6:49 amIsn’t this the list from http://www.drweb.de ?
See: http://www.drweb.de/weblog/weblog/?p=773
Do you steel articles???
typoblog.ch
Trevor
February 28th, 2007 10:27 amHow 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/
Agent 942
February 28th, 2007 10:34 amI 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.
Josh
February 28th, 2007 11:10 amDont forget about PitchDark 2.0.0
I use it and love it.
Justin
February 28th, 2007 11:52 amI don’t understand why Noia is so popular. It’s one of the ugliest themes I’ve ever seen.
Jeff
February 28th, 2007 12:21 pmis this a joke? i generally enjoy smashingmag quite a bit, but this article is terrible. most of these themes are downright fugly.
the gobbler
February 28th, 2007 12:24 pmifox smooth is the only theme that is worth it. the rest are rather cheesy.
crimesaucer
February 28th, 2007 12:37 pmNothing 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.
Mike Shafir
February 28th, 2007 12:57 pmYou 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/
choke
February 28th, 2007 3:26 pm# Sue Says:
February 28th, 2007 at 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.
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
Psyked
February 28th, 2007 6:33 pmEww. I really appriciate the default theme now. Okay, some have nice icons, but.. c’mon, thats a rather boring article guys…
ToxicBrew
February 28th, 2007 6:47 pmBlack japan,Ifox and Metal Lion for me….. rest all are too ugly to use.
Tony Green
February 28th, 2007 7:30 pmA 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.
Andrew
February 28th, 2007 7:49 pmYou’re missing a great one: iPox. Very smooth looking theme, very pretty.
ian
February 28th, 2007 8:19 pmInteresting list. I will add ” whitehart ” theme which is very minimalist and deserves to be part of this list.
smart
February 28th, 2007 9:12 pmCool post!
Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz
February 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. ;)
typoblog.ch
March 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!
ilker
March 1st, 2007 5:47 amActually 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/
ilker
March 1st, 2007 5:53 amPersonally, 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
Tugo
March 2nd, 2007 10:42 amThanx, I like iFox theme.
Mark
March 3rd, 2007 12:39 amI use Orbit Gray, myself
Kevin
March 3rd, 2007 1:32 amLittlefox for me. I like getting more screen
David P
March 3rd, 2007 1:38 amHow about a “compact” theme that allows you to put stuff on the menu bar so that less screen real estate is left unused?
Mark
March 5th, 2007 11:49 amDavid, you already CAN do that. Right-click on the menu bar and click ‘customize’ and you can drag anything anywhere you want.
Alana Post
March 18th, 2007 5:04 amis this list a joke?
Vetrov
June 24th, 2007 12:20 amiFox Smooth forever !!!
Voiture
June 30th, 2007 5:09 pmI like the kid’s theme, it’s amazing what we could do with a computer now !
oppositionradio
July 10th, 2007 11:46 pmamalgam has yet to be updated but was my favorite… i wish the grapple guy would bust out some PC versions of his beautiful stuff
Marc
August 21st, 2007 8:38 pmI 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.
Baronessa
October 2nd, 2007 12:18 pmI 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.
Angel
October 5th, 2007 6:09 pmMy personal favorite is Red Shift V2.
Jeeto
December 6th, 2007 2:44 pmMy personal favorite is Tinseltown!
M.S. Babaei
March 11th, 2008 1:16 pmcan we use safari theme in firefox?
Firefox 3
August 11th, 2008 4:13 pmDo they work with he new FF3?
Christopher Anderton
November 23rd, 2008 12:00 pmI must say, that’s a whole bunch of, well, to be kind, monsterous themes.
Mukesh
December 2nd, 2008 3:51 am3rd 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
vineeth menon
March 5th, 2009 8:19 pmDo they work with he new FF3?
ana
March 30th, 2009 1:48 amNow fireFox is always NEW.
Thanks for sharing, nice collection
Ken Mason
April 19th, 2009 7:57 pmThe 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!
turkce forum
June 29th, 2009 4:08 pmnice themes! thanks a lot
download :)
Wen
September 21st, 2009 8:24 pmTry 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.
veeshan
October 1st, 2009 4:09 amFirefox themes are ugly!!! Soooooo Ugliiiiieeeeeeeeeeee