Firefox Widgets

[atria]

Great work indeed, firefox looks much better now ;)

[loserboy]

2.1 works great, thanks!

[DC@DR]

I got some transparency issue with this version 2.1 (with checkbox and option button), please re-upload the previous version (1.2) also. I need it to fix some CSS problems, many thanks :-)

[fatsheep]

got some transparency issue with this version 2.1 (with checkbox and option button), please re-upload the previous version (1.2) also. I need it to fix some CSS problems, many thanks

I uploaded 1.2. In order to diagnose that bug, I'll need a website or some test html code.


http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/1180/phpbbbulletuv9.png

Currently my profile in phpBB 2.0 looks like this at the section where you can specifiy your gender.

Part of the code:

<tr>
<td class="row1"><span class="gen">Gender:</span></td>
<td class="row2">
<input disabled="disabled" name="gender" value="0" type="radio">
<span class="gen">None Specified</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
<input name="gender" value="1" checked="checked" type="radio">
<span class="gen">Male</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;

<input name="gender" value="2" type="radio">
<span class="gen">Female</span></td>
</tr>

As you can see the bullet is disabled and suffers from a render error.

Try removing the firefox widgets and installing 2.1.

EDIT: Actually that won't work, I'm getting your bug on 2.1 as well. It shouldn't be too hard to fix though. Look for a bug fix in 2.2.

[moredhel]

A graphical installer this time? nice :D

[DC@DR]

@fatsheep: You can check this website: http://www.vietfinsv.net. Right on the portal of the site, the TYPING MODE options are not displayed properly. I don't know if it's site-dependent issue, but the previous version 1.2 works just fine on that site. Many thanks for reuploading :-)

[loserboy]

I also found something in 2.1 although I dunno if it's specific to 2.1


where the arrow is pointing there should be the word "envelope", but the whole drop down menu is blank where there should be about 5 options to choose
It's strange because none of the other menus seem to have this problem on the page, but I use this site 3 or 4 times a day www.fedex.com , but you have to have an account to see that page.

[walkerk]

Cool. Worked great. Firefox looks a lot better now. :)

[schnupi]

Ok so I just updated from 1.1 to 2.2 by uninstalling it first and then installing 2.2... and it looks great

i found one problem though...the ratio buttons which looked good with 1.1 in an invisionboard (ip.board) look terrible with 2.2. with google however they look grand .. below are some screenshots just to illustrate the thing

[fatsheep]

@fatsheep: You can check this website: http://www.vietfinsv.net. Right on the portal of the site, the TYPING MODE options are not displayed properly. I don't know if it's site-dependent issue, but the previous version 1.2 works just fine on that site. Many thanks for reuploading :-)

Yep that's definately a bug, I'll get working on it.

I also found something in 2.1 although I dunno if it's specific to 2.1


where the arrow is pointing there should be the word "envelope", but the whole drop down menu is blank where there should be about 5 options to choose
It's strange because none of the other menus seem to have this problem on the page, but I use this site 3 or 4 times a day www.fedex.com , but you have to have an account to see that page.

Well I'll look around and see if I find a situation similar to this. It would be helpful if you could reproduce the section of code that causes this problem (Press Ctrl+u to view the source code of a web page in Firefox).

Ok so I just updated from 1.1 to 2.2 by uninstalling it first and then installing 2.2... and it looks great

i found one problem though...the ratio buttons which looked good with 1.1 in an invisionboard (ip.board) look terrible with 2.2. with google however they look grand .. below are some screenshots just to illustrate the thing

Do you have a link?

[schnupi]

check ur pm although i think its an ipboard problem

[loserboy]

Well I'll look around and see if I find a situation similar to this. It would be helpful if you could reproduce the section of code that causes this problem (Press Ctrl+u to view the source code of a web page in Firefox).


ok I'm not very good at this, but this section was the only thing that seemed related, also attached is a full screen shot, but the full code is too big to attach


package1.options[i] = null;
}
package1.options[packIndex] = new Option("Select packaging", "Select packaging");
packIndex++;
package1.options[packIndex] = new Option("FedEx Envelope", "FedEx Envelope");
packIndex++;
package1.options[packIndex] = new Option("FedEx Pak", "FedEx Pak");
packIndex++;
package1.options[packIndex] = new Option("FedEx Box", "FedEx Box");
packIndex++;
package1.options[packIndex] = new Option("FedEx Tube", "FedEx Tube");
packIndex++;
package1.options[packIndex] = new Option("Your Packaging", "Your Packaging");
payment1.options[paymentCount] = null;
if(index2 == paymentCount)
index2 =docshipD.payAccountIndex.value;
}
docshipD.prev_service.value=selectedServiceis;
service1.selectedIndex = index;
package1.selectedIndex = index1;
getDropDownValue(selectedPackaging, package1);
payment1.selectedIndex = index2;
}
}

[fatsheep]

Ok so I just updated from 1.1 to 2.2 by uninstalling it first and then installing 2.2... and it looks great

i found one problem though...the ratio buttons which looked good with 1.1 in an invisionboard (ip.board) look terrible with 2.2. with google however they look grand .. below are some screenshots just to illustrate the thing

I registered and I'm waiting on Admin approval in order to view that page.

@fatsheep: You can check this website: http://www.vietfinsv.net. Right on the portal of the site, the TYPING MODE options are not displayed properly. I don't know if it's site-dependent issue, but the previous version 1.2 works just fine on that site. Many thanks for reuploading :-)

Fixed in 2.3. That bug was so pesky that I'm numbering them and keeping a log now. :-p

[DC@DR]

Hi fatsheep:

Thanks for the fix. But the install.sh (v2.3) file needs to be rewritten, cause when issuing it, it generated this error message:

[19:48:32]dbuiviet@ubuntu:~/Temp/firefox_widgets_2.3$ ./install -i
Installing widgets to /home/fatsheep/Desktop/test
Installing the images to /home/fatsheep/Desktop/test/res/form-widgets.
cp: cannot create directory `/home/fatsheep/Desktop/test/res': No such file or directory
Appending contents of forms-extra.css to /home/fatsheep/Desktop/test/res/forms.css.
bash: /home/fatsheep/Desktop/test/res/forms.css: No such file or directory
bash: /home/fatsheep/Desktop/test/res/forms.css: No such file or directory
bash: /home/fatsheep/Desktop/test/res/forms.css: No such file or directory
Installation complete. Please restart Firefox.

When I edited the install.sh and got the forms-extra.css appended to /usr/lib/firefox/res/forms.css properly, the option box is now displayed properly, but the checkbox is still NOT (I tested on the same site, you can test the checkbox by going to login page of the site). Could you take a look once again, and rewrite the install script? Thanks :-)

[fatsheep]

Hi fatsheep:

Thanks for the fix. But the install.sh (v2.3) file needs to be rewritten, cause when issuing it, it generated this error message:

[19:48:32]dbuiviet@ubuntu:~/Temp/firefox_widgets_2.3$ ./install -i
Installing widgets to /home/fatsheep/Desktop/test
Installing the images to /home/fatsheep/Desktop/test/res/form-widgets.
cp: cannot create directory `/home/fatsheep/Desktop/test/res': No such file or directory
Appending contents of forms-extra.css to /home/fatsheep/Desktop/test/res/forms.css.
bash: /home/fatsheep/Desktop/test/res/forms.css: No such file or directory
bash: /home/fatsheep/Desktop/test/res/forms.css: No such file or directory
bash: /home/fatsheep/Desktop/test/res/forms.css: No such file or directory
Installation complete. Please restart Firefox.

When I edited the install.sh and got the forms-extra.css appended to /usr/lib/firefox/res/forms.css properly, the option box is now displayed properly, but the checkbox is still NOT (I tested on the same site, you can test the checkbox by going to login page of the site). Could you take a look once again, and rewrite the install script? Thanks :-)

Sorry about that typo, I've uploaded a corrected version 2.3. However, I'm convinced I fixed your problem, I have 2.3 installed and the web page views 100% normally. Remember that installing over the previous widgets with the normal install option does not work. You need to use the reinstall (upgrade) option ("--reinstall" or "-u" on the command line). I think I might just make it so the install option automatically overwrites any existing firefox widgets in the future and remove the reinstall option. Having an install option that doesn't install over previous versions is just a source of confusion.

[schnupi]

I registered and I'm waiting on Admin approval in order to view that page.



Fixed in 2.3. That bug was so pesky that I'm numbering them and keeping a log now. :-p


thanks 2.3 fixed the problem! i really hope that this widget is going to be integrated into either the new ubuntu version or into the new linux firefox versions

edit: hmm the checkboxes seem to be still not working though... 2 screenshots for comparison below
edit2: if you wanna have a look -> http://forums.invisionpower.com/index.php?act=Search ... the official ipboard has the same problem with the checkboxes

[ingvarwolf]

I have installed and liked that very much. Thank you! Great job!

[Twizz]

Hello! I posted a while ago, and just wanted to say thx again! I had noticed small problems with this before, but still liked it better than the default. BTW all the problems I had have been fixed since last I checked the forums lol so thx :)

[Surkow]

@fatsheep - Thanks for fixing the bug with the disabled bullets.

[fatsheep]

Again, thanks for all the support. :KS

thanks 2.3 fixed the problem! i really hope that this widget is going to be integrated into either the new ubuntu version or into the new linux firefox versions

edit: hmm the checkboxes seem to be still not working though... 2 screenshots for comparison below
edit2: if you wanna have a look -> http://forums.invisionpower.com/index.php?act=Search ... the official ipboard has the same problem with the checkboxes

Confirmed as Bug #3. Thanks for the report.

EDIT: Fixed in Revision 2.4.

[fatsheep]

ok I'm not very good at this, but this section was the only thing that seemed related, also attached is a full screen shot, but the full code is too big to attach


package1.options[i] = null;
}
package1.options[packIndex] = new Option("Select packaging", "Select packaging");
packIndex++;
package1.options[packIndex] = new Option("FedEx Envelope", "FedEx Envelope");
packIndex++;
package1.options[packIndex] = new Option("FedEx Pak", "FedEx Pak");
packIndex++;
package1.options[packIndex] = new Option("FedEx Box", "FedEx Box");
packIndex++;
package1.options[packIndex] = new Option("FedEx Tube", "FedEx Tube");
packIndex++;
package1.options[packIndex] = new Option("Your Packaging", "Your Packaging");
payment1.options[paymentCount] = null;
if(index2 == paymentCount)
index2 =docshipD.payAccountIndex.value;
}
docshipD.prev_service.value=selectedServiceis;
service1.selectedIndex = index;
package1.selectedIndex = index1;
getDropDownValue(selectedPackaging, package1);
payment1.selectedIndex = index2;
}
}

Could you email me the entire page? ( jesse <DOT> fatsheep >AT< gmail *DOT* com. Thanks.

[DC@DR]

Yes, finally, this version 2.4 has fixed all the deformed problems in my website http://www.vietfinsv.net. Thanks a lot, fatsheep, for the good works. Cheers :-)

[schnupi]

yap 2.4 absolutely fixed all my problems! thanks alot!:KS

[loserboy]

Could you email me the entire page? ( jesse <DOT> fatsheep >AT< gmail *DOT* com. Thanks.

well... it works in 2.4, i dunno why.... i can switch back to 2.1 and it still messes up, but 2.4 is perfect.

you still want the page?

[fatsheep]

Yes, finally, this version 2.4 has fixed all the deformed problems in my website http://www.vietfinsv.net. Thanks a lot, fatsheep, for the good works. Cheers

yap 2.4 absolutely fixed all my problems! thanks alot!

Glad to hear it. :)

well... it works in 2.4, i dunno why.... i can switch back to 2.1 and it still messes up, but 2.4 is perfect.

you still want the page?

Yes. I'd like to have a look and see if I can replicate the problem. Perhaps I can learn something useful from it.

[loserboy]

sent... that is one big page of code

let me know if theres anything I can do to help

[tomane]

Looks great, I just installed it and firefox looks improved a *lot*. However I think the buttons are a little too flat for my taste but they certainly don't look bad anyway.

Cheers,
--to

[jdarias]

Wow... what a must have!!

tried the text installer, wich was very friendly. No need for the graphic thing! ;) at least for me

congratulations!

thank you!

[wersdaluv]

Fatsheep, you're the man!

[yagood]

Great project, thanks!

[AptlyNamed]

Excellent patch..this should be default in Firefox. But I did notice some disappearing checkboxes such as here: http://polishlinux.org/choose/quiz/ (http://polishlinux.org/choose/quiz/) . I'm using using Firefox-Widgets v2.4 and Firefox v2.0.0.4 by the way.

[fatsheep]

Looks great, I just installed it and firefox looks improved a *lot*. However I think the buttons are a little too flat for my taste but they certainly don't look bad anyway.

Cheers,
--to

Well all the images are in the "form-widgets" folder, so feel free to edit those files install (or just edit the images directly under the res/form-widgets directory in your firefox directory). So if you have any graphical skill with the gimp that you'd like to put to work for us, feel free to do so. I've been meaning to experiment with it myself, just haven't gotten around to it yet.

Excellent patch..this should be default in Firefox. But I did notice some disappearing checkboxes such as here: http://polishlinux.org/choose/quiz/ (http://polishlinux.org/choose/quiz/) . I'm using using Firefox-Widgets v2.4 and Firefox v2.0.0.4 by the way.

Well there aren't any checkboxes on that page, I think you are referring to the radio buttons. I don't see any problems with the display of the radio buttons, feel free to post a screenshot of the bug.

[AptlyNamed]

Well there aren't any checkboxes on that page, I think you are referring to the radio buttons. I don't see any problems with the display of the radio buttons, feel free to post a screenshot of the bug.

I found the cause. When I copied the form-widgets folder to /usr/lib/firefox/res/ using sudo, the permissions for the form-widgets folder were set only for root. Could it be that copying from an ntfs partition removes permissions? Anyway when I changed the permissions it worked.

[Gauchoo1234]

Problem:

/usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.4/res/form-widgets not found. No action taken.
The CSS does not appear to be installed.
/usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.4/res/forms.css will not be edited.


What does this mean? Do i need to install some 'CSS' ? What is this?

Thanks,

[Gauchoo1234]

Problem:

/usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.4/res/form-widgets not found. No action taken.
The CSS does not appear to be installed.
/usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.4/res/forms.css will not be edited.


What does this mean? Do i need to install some 'CSS' ? What is this?

Thanks,

Problem fixed, just installed Firefox Widgets 0.2 :)

Sorry for the dumb question above

[haispeedy]

My Firefox looks better now !
Thanks you for this useful thing. :D

[speaker219]

Ah, it's beautiful now, thanks alot, the radio buttons were astonishingly ugly before =)
web 2.0ish

[u-ben-tu]

Thanks, this is great. Couldn't bear to look at those ugly buttons before. Now I'm happy :grin:

[Steeljack]

These are lovely. Minimalist without being too understated. Elegant. Thanks for creating them, and thanks for keeping them updated!

[tzulberti]

It works great here

[xanderer]

great fix, looks amazing!:p

[kingfishr]

I seem to have a problem with the outlines of checkboxes not showing up...the box is there because i can click it and a check mark appears, but the outlines are invisible and thus i often don't notice checkboxes at all.

Other than that, the widgets are beautiful.

[coonj]

Very nice! Feels more like Ubuntu (less like Windows).

I think my radio buttons may have disappeared though.... there are non in the "Post Icons" selector below

[Surkow]

@fatsheep - I noticed that disabled radio buttons were greyed out before I updated to the new widgets. Can you make the new radio buttons grey out when disabled? I wrote a small article (http://surkow.nl/articles/20070627-1.html) to compare the different widgets.

[turezky]

10x, works great :)
And now, how can I customize the .png for myself. Tried GIMP. Opened button.png, and it was empty inside...

[xinafoid]

Works great, a much better UI. Thank You!

[GalenX]

Dear fatsheep,

Thank you very much for the new buttons in firefox. They look awesome and best of all, they work for me without a glitch. As I am writing on a tutorial on how to make the look and feel of firefox better in Ubuntu on the German Ubuntu wiki (see here (http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Baustelle/Firefox_Optik/)), I would like to ask you, if you would agree to put your wigets on the manual? If yes, is it possible to provide a download link, that does not need a login? Do you want me to put any special link of yours on the wiki page (e.g. your homepage)?

Thanks and keep up the good work, we appreciate it also here in Europe very much. :D

Yours GalenX

[Djieff]

Seriously, I don't know why but the widgets are not there. Firefox has not changed. I installed using the GUI-installer, everything went well, something flashed ( like a refresh rate flash)as if there was something changing.

Unfortunatly, when I relaunched firefox, the same buttons were there, and no new widgets.

Do you have an idea?

[Surkow]

Seriously, I don't know why but the widgets are not there. Firefox has not changed. I installed using the GUI-installer, everything went well, something flashed ( like a refresh rate flash)as if there was something changing.

Unfortunatly, when I relaunched firefox, the same buttons were there, and no new widgets.

Do you have an idea?

Where did you install Firefox?

[FoolsGold_MKII]

Tried it today. You've done good work dude, makes things look even slicker on my system. :)

[Emx]

Here is the mirror: http://emir.linux.org.ba/firefox-widgets-1.1.tar.bz2

[Djieff]

Where did you install Firefox?

I rebooted and now the widgets are working. I didn't thought that rebooting was necessary.
I like the results on firefox, it's looks better.

thanks!

[Surkow]

I rebooted and now the widgets are working. I didn't thought that rebooting was necessary.
I like the results on firefox, it's looks better.

thanks!

Somehow Fx must have been running...since rebooting isn't needed at all.

[TutoWRM]

thanks, i'm gonna try it now.

[fatsheep]

I seem to have a problem with the outlines of checkboxes not showing up...the box is there because i can click it and a check mark appears, but the outlines are invisible and thus i often don't notice checkboxes at all.

Other than that, the widgets are beautiful.

This sounds like a bug I've already fixed. Have you upgraded to 2.4? If so please post a screenshot or link to the page.

@fatsheep - I noticed that disabled radio buttons were greyed out before I updated to the new widgets. Can you make the new radio buttons grey out when disabled? I wrote a small article (http://surkow.nl/articles/20070627-1.html) to compare the different widgets.

Yea I'm sure that's not hard to do. No time right now, but I'm writing myself a note to check that out (maybe later tonight).



10x, works great :)
And now, how can I customize the .png for myself. Tried GIMP. Opened button.png, and it was empty inside...

It's actually not empty. Use the color picker to get the exact color of the pixels on the edges of the image. If you're next question is how this works, I really don't know, I never got around to experimenting with it.


Dear fatsheep,

Thank you very much for the new buttons in firefox. They look awesome and best of all, they work for me without a glitch. As I am writing on a tutorial on how to make the look and feel of firefox better in Ubuntu on the German Ubuntu wiki (see here (http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Baustelle/Firefox_Optik/)), I would like to ask you, if you would agree to put your wigets on the manual? If yes, is it possible to provide a download link, that does not need a login? Do you want me to put any special link of yours on the wiki page (e.g. your homepage)?

Thanks and keep up the good work, we appreciate it also here in Europe very much. :D

Yours GalenX

Sorry for that late reply, yes you can use widgets. In fact please do, I don't require any links. All I ask is that the authors remain listed in the authors file, feel free to make any changes or improvements. I don't have a way to host the file outside of the forum so I'm afraid I can't help you there. Good luck on the tutorial!

[michaelzap]

Working perfectly (and looking a whole lot nicer) in Swiftfox - Thanks!

[TalkJesus]

How do I apply this to a 32bit firefox version, installed via this method?
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=202537

I am running FF 32 bit on 64bit Gutsy Tribe 2.

I ran the script and selected custom path, /usr/local/firefox32
but nothing happened (yes, FF was closed too).

[fatsheep]

How do I apply this to a 32bit firefox version, installed via this method?
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=202537

I am running FF 32 bit on 64bit Gutsy Tribe 2.

I ran the script and selected custom path, /usr/local/firefox32
but nothing happened (yes, FF was closed too).

Check the command of your browser (right click on the icon and go to properties). It should be firefox32 (I use the same thing). Type whereis firefox32 in the terminal or whereis <Whatever the command for your browser is here>. Here's my output:

fatsheep:~$ whereis firefox32
firefox32: /usr/local/bin/firefox32 /usr/local/firefox32 /usr/share/firefox32 /usr/share/man/man1/firefox32.1.gz


I put the location of the main directory in bold. Maybe your firefox32 was installed into /opt/ ?

[ElemonGW]

Buttons and checkboxes are correctly changed. Drop down menus change as well but not correctly, as the button at the right remains the default and doesn't become the one with to arrows. Text fields are converted correctly too, but in some sites the default ones appear. Finally, no problem with radio buttons too. That's all :)

[Ted Nancy]

Much better! Why is this something that needs to be done though? If you can do this, why can't Firefox implement this directly?

[ginocic]

it rocks!!! :guitar:

I can't understand why Firefox team doesn't implement such features directly, too.

Well, we're lucky because there's someone who gave us the Wonderful widgets ;)

Keep up the great work!

[moredhel]

I think these should be the widgets :D

[alex_goodwin]

Works like a charm!
Thanks a lot!

[VictorR]

Really cool!
And the graphical installer is very nice indeed. Thank you!

[GalenX]

Dear fat sheep,
Thank you very much for letting us here on wiki.ubuntuusers.de use the widgets. I have put your package version 2.4 "as is" on our server (that means containing all the authors as you have alrady done) and have put your name on the wiki for the widgets. A link has been made to this threat.
Thanks again

GalenX

[fatsheep]

I'm having trouble getting the radio buttons to gray out when disabled as requested but I did get the dropdown image to work. I'll post a small update soon.

[TNBY963]

Thanks,

this works great. Nice.

Greetz

Gert

[fatsheep]

2.5 is released. Radio buttons now "grey out" as requested when disabled and they also show a bit of color when selected (active), as checkboxes do. Because of the round, css controlled borders badly distort the appearence of the radio buttons. Because of this, I haven't been able to achieve the nice little inset border that checkboxes have when selected. If you find a way to accomplish this in the image for the selected radio button (named "radio-active.png"), then feel free to contact me. Dropdown menus display the correct image (double arrows) now as well.

[hammedhaaret]

great widgets... really great, and really easy for a ubuntu-newbie like myself.

thx a bunch

[Surkow]

2.5 is released. Radio buttons now "grey out" as requested when disabled and they also show a bit of color when selected (active), as checkboxes do. Because of the round, css controlled borders badly distort the appearence of the radio buttons. Because of this, I haven't been able to achieve the nice little inset border that checkboxes have when selected. If you find a way to accomplish this in the image for the selected radio button (named "radio-active.png"), then feel free to contact me. Dropdown menus display the correct image (double arrows) now as well.

Thanks for adding the greyed out radio button. I don't know the solution for the other problems though.

[schnupi]

hey.. found another bug i think..

if u go to http://arcticmonkeys.trinitystreetdirect.com/ there is a drop down menu for the currency change .. the drop down menu button doesnt show ..

added two screenshots.. one browsed with opera where it shows and the other one with firefox where it doesnt show

[ceti]

Thanks, fatsheep. Version 2.5 worked perfectly with CLI.

Cheers

[fox88]

so mutch better :D

thanks pal ;)

[fatsheep]

hey.. found another bug i think..

if u go to http://arcticmonkeys.trinitystreetdirect.com/ there is a drop down menu for the currency change .. the drop down menu button doesnt show ..

added two screenshots.. one browsed with opera where it shows and the other one with firefox where it doesnt show

Confirmed and fixed. Fix will be included in V2.6. I want to fiddle around with the CSS for the dropdowns a bit more before I release 2.6 though.

EDIT: Done fiddling. ;) 2.6 is released.

[schnupi]

Confirmed and fixed. Fix will be included in V2.6. I want to fiddle around with the CSS for the dropdowns a bit more before I release 2.6 though.

EDIT: Done fiddling. ;) 2.6 is released.

perfect! thanks very much!

[Goombie]

I can't get the either of the installers to work. I double-clicked on graphic_installer, but all that happened was that the script opened up in a text editor. I tried running the other install script, but I get an error message. Help? :(

[fatsheep]

I can't get the either of the installers to work. I double-clicked on graphic_installer, but all that happened was that the script opened up in a text editor. I tried running the other install script, but I get an error message. Help? :(

You extracted the .tar.bz2 archive into a folder didn't you? If you didn't then do that first. When you double click on the graphic installer you should get a menu. You can then select "Run" and the graphic installer will run. To run the text installer ("install"), open up a terminal in the directory you extracted to and use the command ./install.

[nerzack]

Very nice! Thank you!

[ecoxmit]

works perfectly

[dizney]

Works fine, thx

[dsosa]

Awesome dude! :)

[Goombie]

You extracted the .tar.bz2 archive into a folder didn't you? If you didn't then do that first. When you double click on the graphic installer you should get a menu. You can then select "Run" and the graphic installer will run. To run the text installer ("install"), open up a terminal in the directory you extracted to and use the command ./install.

Yes, I extracted the archive into a folder and all that. Turns out I had to run the graphical installer from a terminal to use it, which is slightly odd. I got the widgets installed though, and they look great. :)

[fatsheep]

Yes, I extracted the archive into a folder and all that. Turns out I had to run the graphical installer from a terminal to use it, which is slightly odd. I got the widgets installed though, and they look great. :)

Really? You shouldn't have to. On my machine I can just double click on the graphic_installer file and select "Run" on the menu that pops up. Make sure that graphic_installer has executable permissions. The one I include in the archive always does but maybe there could be a problem transfering those permissions from computer to computer?

[Goombie]

The file does have executable permissions, so that isn't the problem. For some reason, the script files just open in gedit. I've tested it with other scripts files, so it's a problem with my computer, rather than your scripting. :)
On a side note, does anyone know how I could change my file associations, or whatever they're called in Linux, so I can execute script files correctly?

[fatsheep]

The file does have executable permissions, so that isn't the problem. For some reason, the script files just open in gedit. I've tested it with other scripts files, so it's a problem with my computer, rather than your scripting. :)
On a side note, does anyone know how I could change my file associations, or whatever they're called in Linux, so I can execute script files correctly?

Try this:

Open up nautilus (file browser), select "Edit" from the top menu bar, then select "Preferences" from the Edit menu. It should open up a window called "File Management Preferences". Select the "Behavior" tab at the options under the bold text "Executable Text Files". I think you want this set at "Ask each time" so you get a menu like I do that will ask you if you want to "Display" the text file (in gedit), run the file, or run it in a terminal.

Hope that solved your problem,

- sheep

[Goombie]

That certainly did solve my problem. Thanks! :KS

[fatsheep]

That certainly did solve my problem. Thanks! :KS

I'm glad I could help. :)

[fifth_rune]

After updating to 2.0.0.5, this no longer seems to be working for me. Anyone else have this problem or know the solution?

[jhnthn]

I just downloaded the latest Firefox nightly to see how Firefox 3 is shaping up and noticed that forms look native now. Thought you all might be interested.

[NilsE]

After updating to 2.0.0.5, this no longer seems to be working for me. Anyone else have this problem or know the solution?

The update resets the forms.css so you need to reinstall the script.

[5hundy]

Thanks for providing this! I like the older versions better though. I has on 1.1 and now using 1.2. I tried the latest version and everything looked really crowded - even on the google home page the buttons are almost drawn over the text box. This is with FF 2.0.0.5

[sunshine12]

thanks

[fatsheep]

Thanks for providing this! I like the older versions better though. I has on 1.1 and now using 1.2. I tried the latest version and everything looked really crowded - even on the google home page the buttons are almost drawn over the text box. This is with FF 2.0.0.5

Yea, I removed the margins on just about everything so as not to conflict with site layouts. This can sometimes make things look more crowded but it is also less likely to mess up site layouts so I think it is worth it. If you like, I could go back in and add in the margins for 2.6 and send you the file so that you could install 2.6 with the margins of 1.2.

[GeneralHooHa]

I really like this. I never realized how old the internet looked until I installed this. Thank you.

[ryk]

It works very well and is easily to install. And, of course, it looks very great ;-)

[wersdaluv]

The widgets look odd on my laptop.

What do I do?

Please see the attachment.

[fatsheep]

The widgets look odd on my laptop.

What do I do?

Please see the attachment.

That looks normal to me. If you are talking about the different coloration of the buttons, I think that is because of your GNOME theme. Try using the default "Human" theme and see how the widgets look then.

[dooooomi]

Is it possible to install these widgets in a way that will survive a Firefox upgrade? Or do I have to reinstall them every time there's a new version of Firefox?

Also, is there a way to install this locally in ~/.mozilla/firefox?

[Catsworth]

Hi, me again :)

Yet another FF update, meaning yet another re-install of the widgets. Only this time I'm having real problems, I can't even get the file to extract. Has anybody else had problems?

Any chance someone could give me the Command Line so that I can make sure I've got it right?

Thanks?

[flipthedolphin]

Does this work with Flock?
I've installed the getdeb.net 0.9.0.1 32 bit version (http://www.getdeb.net/app.php?name=Flock).

On firefox works fine.

[amoore]

cant wait to give this a try!

[zsouthboy]

Heads up, 2.6 works for me in Gutsy Tribe 3, x64 bit - running the trunk build of Firefox (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9a7pre) Gecko/2007072104 Minefield/3.0a7pre)

The scrollbar still looks like old X application scrollbars (compared to say FF2, on the same machine, which uses gnome's theme)

Thanks for the script!

[Catsworth]

Hi, me again :)

Yet another FF update, meaning yet another re-install of the widgets. Only this time I'm having real problems, I can't even get the file to extract. Has anybody else had problems?

Any chance someone could give me the Command Line so that I can make sure I've got it right?

Thanks?



Anybody?

Thanks.

[fatsheep]

Is it possible to install these widgets in a way that will survive a Firefox upgrade? Or do I have to reinstall them every time there's a new version of Firefox?

Also, is there a way to install this locally in ~/.mozilla/firefox?

I think you will have to reinstall after each update. Also, I do not know of a way to install into ~/.mozilla/firefox directory. However, if I'm wrong let me know.

Hi, me again :)

Yet another FF update, meaning yet another re-install of the widgets. Only this time I'm having real problems, I can't even get the file to extract. Has anybody else had problems?

Any chance someone could give me the Command Line so that I can make sure I've got it right?

Thanks?

What version is this? How are you trying to extract the file? What error are you getting?

Does this work with Flock?
I've installed the getdeb.net 0.9.0.1 32 bit version (http://www.getdeb.net/app.php?name=Flock).

On firefox works fine.

I have never used Flock but it is based on Firefox's code base so I think it should work. If you want to check, first go into the flock directory and make sure there is a "res" directory. Inside that directory there should be a forms.css file and no file or folder named "form-widgets" unless you have already installed the widgets to flock. After doing this, install the widgets. It should work. Let me know how it goes.

[Gadren]

Hey, just wanted to post and say that this worked wonderfully for me! Thank you so much for making this!

[Catsworth]

What version is this? How are you trying to extract the file? What error are you getting?

Think it must have been a corrupted file, it worked fine this time - I like the graphical installer, very nice :)

[Catsworth]

Ok, my previous problem seems to have been caused by the fact that I was downloading the file to a FAT32 formatted drive and trying to extract it there. I've since downloaded directly to my Desktop and it works fine.

[Thene]

Superb! Thank you fatsheep, you're a :KS.

It works perfectly in FF64bit & FF32bit running on Fiesty Intel 64.

When installing I just had to change the folder for intstalling the widget to where the FF32bit was. Eg. /usr/local/firefox32.

The radio buttons always looked unfinished. I am so pleased!

[cheeki]

Great work :) Thanks

[notoeverything]

Other people have mentioned it but was just wondering if there was any permanent solution to the crowding, especially on Google. You said that fixing it could affect the layouts of sites. How bad would it be? Would it be worth it because I think it looks quite ugly so crowded.

[fatsheep]

Other people have mentioned it but was just wondering if there was any permanent solution to the crowding, especially on Google. You said that fixing it could affect the layouts of sites. How bad would it be? Would it be worth it because I think it looks quite ugly so crowded.

Well I don't remove any padding or margins from Firefox (although the original CSS did) so if its crowded now, it was like that by default. However, if you want to try an experiment, follow these instructions:

1. Go to the directory where you have V2.6 extracted.
2. Open up "forms-extra.css" in a text editor.
3. Find the "Buttons" section:


/* Buttons */

input[type="button"],
input[type="submit"],
input[type="reset"],
button,
select {
color: ButtonText;
background-color: Window;
background: Window url("form-widgets/button.png") repeat-x bottom right;
border: 2px solid ThreeDShadow;
-moz-border-top-colors: ThreeDShadow Window;
-moz-border-right-colors: ThreeDShadow ThreeDHighlight;
-moz-border-bottom-colors: ThreeDShadow ThreeDHighlight;
-moz-border-left-colors: ThreeDShadow Window;
-moz-border-radius: 1px;
}

4. Add a 2px margin to those buttons:


/* Buttons */

input[type="button"],
input[type="submit"],
input[type="reset"],
button,
select {
color: ButtonText;
background-color: Window;
background: Window url("form-widgets/button.png") repeat-x bottom right;
border: 2px solid ThreeDShadow;
-moz-border-top-colors: ThreeDShadow Window;
-moz-border-right-colors: ThreeDShadow ThreeDHighlight;
-moz-border-bottom-colors: ThreeDShadow ThreeDHighlight;
-moz-border-left-colors: ThreeDShadow Window;
-moz-border-radius: 1px;
margin:2px;
}

5. Save the text file.
6. Reinstall the widgets (using the installer in that directory).
7. Now, after you restart Firefox, you will see some padding around the buttons on google and other sites. You can also increase or decrease the padding if you like. For example, try margin:5px and you'll get even more space around the buttons.

[delacerda]

Thanks! I never liked the way the default widgets looked either. This looks much better. Thanks for the work!

[jeroenvrp]

In installed version 1.0 a while ago and now I've out, it's already version 2.6. Great job!!!

I changed one thing and that's the droparrow. I personally don't like the up+down-arrow, so I changed it to only a down-arrow. Maybe because I'm on Kubuntu/KDE. So maybe it's an idea to have this as an option. I attached the files.

Cheers,

Jeroen

[jjgomera]

wow, finally firefox show pretty like windows, thanks

[didwah]

Looks awesome!!:guitar:

[st33med]

I do like it, however, sometimes it reverts to it's old buttons when I upgrade Firefox (I think that is when it happens, not sure).

But, thank you.

[fatsheep]

I do like it, however, sometimes it reverts to it's old buttons when I upgrade Firefox (I think that is when it happens, not sure).

But, thank you.

Yep, Firefox overwrites the forms.css file which restores back to the old buttons, forcing you to reinstall the widgets. There's no good way around it that I know of unless there's a way to detect when firefox gets upgraded and run a certain command when it does but I don't know enough about the package system to do that. If you find a way please post it here and I'll add it to my main post. :)

[lamarcheb]

Works great. Better than a manual install. Thanks for putting your talents to good use. The installer is slicks and worked great. Now Firefox is very usable!:popcorn:

[nelamvr6]

Excellent work! This is a big improvement!

[dizzyboo]

Thanks for this great tweak. Never realised how ugly the default widgets were.

[LKRaider]

Yep, Firefox overwrites the forms.css file which restores back to the old buttons, forcing you to reinstall the widgets. There's no good way around it that I know of unless there's a way to detect when firefox gets upgraded and run a certain command when it does but I don't know enough about the package system to do that. If you find a way please post it here and I'll add it to my main post. :)

You can, using dpkg-divert. From the man page:
File ‘diversions’ are a way of forcing dpkg(1) not to install a file into its location(...)

For each altered file, when installing the widgets, you could run something like:
sudo dpkg-divert /usr/lib/firefox/filename

And when removing:
sudo dpkg-divert --remove /usr/lib/firefox/filename

[kostkon]

Thanks very much.

[sur]

Hi,
That worked out well.
Thanks !!

--
sur
http://expressica.com

[fatsheep]

You can, using dpkg-divert. From the man page:


For each altered file, when installing the widgets, you could run something like:
sudo dpkg-divert /usr/lib/firefox/filename

And when removing:
sudo dpkg-divert --remove /usr/lib/firefox/filename

Thanks for the tip. However, if there is a major Firefox update and there are changes made to the forms.css file then this will prevent that from happening so it might not be a good idea to add it to the script. I will, however, add it to the main post.

[acankat]

Wonderful !

[M.G.]

Thanks a lot... works great...

[yopnono]

just like to say... that ver 3 of firefox have native buttons etc etc to match the theme selected.

[fatsheep]

just like to say... that ver 3 of firefox have native buttons etc etc to match the theme selected.

Well that's good news. We'll be able to retire my dirty little script. ;)

[fatsheep]

Is noticing web pages where the arrows for the dropdown image do not display? I noticed this posting at an SMF forum... It's really easy to fix so I can release a fix in 2.7 but I was suprised no one reported the bug.

[aztec13]

none of this has anything to do with anything if you use a add-on theme or does it ? By the way PimpZilla frefox add-onn theme is the smoothest look obtainable, especially how nicely it inherits colors from Ubuntu's desktop themes.k

[kwaanens]

Seing as Firefox widgets also work for Swiftfox and more, it would be cool to have the graphic installer have a list of known firefox-based browsers it works with, and then I could change the stuff in all at once. Could be useful to have a manual line or two, so people could put in their specific odd ball browser as well.

Still dreaming of a .deb that will automagically run if swiftfox, firefox, etc. is updated... Isn't this possible to achieve? I picture an array of uses for such functionality within the dpkg-dept.

- Ketil

[fatsheep]

none of this has anything to do with anything if you use a add-on theme or does it ? By the way PimpZilla frefox add-onn theme is the smoothest look obtainable, especially how nicely it inherits colors from Ubuntu's desktop themes.k

Nope, it does not effect themes that I know of unless themes can reskin the widgets. Even then, I don't think it would interfere...

Seing as Firefox widgets also work for Swiftfox and more, it would be cool to have the graphic installer have a list of known firefox-based browsers it works with, and then I could change the stuff in all at once. Could be useful to have a manual line or two, so people could put in their specific odd ball browser as well.

Still dreaming of a .deb that will automagically run if swiftfox, firefox, etc. is updated... Isn't this possible to achieve? I picture an array of uses for such functionality within the dpkg-dept.

- Ketil

I'm working on it. :) I'm going to put these paths in the system:

/usr/lib/firefox
/usr/local/firefox32
/usr/local/Iceweasel32
/usr/local/swiftfox


Any others? Also, I'm going to try and make it "remember" what directory you last installed to. Coming in 2.7... ;)

[jjgomera]

Seing as Firefox widgets also work for Swiftfox and more, it would be cool to have the graphic installer have a list of known firefox-based browsers it works with, and then I could change the stuff in all at once. Could be useful to have a manual line or two, so people could put in their specific odd ball browser as well.

Still dreaming of a .deb that will automagically run if swiftfox, firefox, etc. is updated... Isn't this possible to achieve? I picture an array of uses for such functionality within the dpkg-dept.

- Ketil
This widgets run well in swiftfox too, you only have to say the path of swiftfox in graphic instalation, i use with switfox fine

/usr/lib/firefox
/usr/local/firefox32
/usr/local/Iceweasel32
/usr/local/swiftfox

Well,my swiftfox is in: /usr/lib/swiftfox, thanks for this marvelous :D

[fatsheep]

This widgets run well in swiftfox too, you only have to say the path of swiftfox in graphic instalation, i use with switfox fine


Well,my swiftfox is in: /usr/lib/swiftfox, thanks for this marvelous :D

Added that and it's released in V2.7. :)

[Yasumoto]

I love how each time I check back on this thread, there's an update. Thanks so much! I really love this, it looks awesome. :)

[hypnos]

It looks awesome!!!! :)=D>

[Pablo Pablovski]

Thanks for all your efforts - the widgets look great.. :)

[msgnomer]

Thanks so much for this. Looks great.

[kwaanens]

What's up with test1 and test2 in v2.7?

And isn't it possible to make the graphic script write to all those directories at once? Making it obsolete to run it more than once?
Either it could check what dirs are available, and then copy the relevant files, or it could just put them all where they belong, disregarding if the browser in question is actually installed.

- Ketil

[fatsheep]

What's up with test1 and test2 in v2.7?

Delete your "paths" file. Sorry about that, I was testing how the script would handle duplicate entries in the paths file (which would occur if you had to install to the same path twice). I have re-uploaded V2.7 without all the test1, test2 nonsense. ;)

Thanks for letting me know, that was careless of me...


And isn't it possible to make the graphic script write to all those directories at once? Making it obsolete to run it more than once?
Either it could check what dirs are available, and then copy the relevant files, or it could just put them all where they belong, disregarding if the browser in question is actually installed.

- Ketil

Well it could but what if your browser is in /opt/firefox or /usr/local/swiftweasel? Also consider a situation where the user may not want me installing the widgets to his /usr/lib/firefox installation but only to his /usr/local/swiftweasel installation. There are way too many different browsers and paths to test all of them. It's easier just to let the user tell the script where they want the widgets put and then put them there instead of guessing on where everything is and where the user wants the widgets installed.

[crjackson]

@fatsheep

After looking at your before and after pictures of the google section, can you tell me howcome IE shows the thin line around the search box in faint blue, and FF is a gray colored box?

I kind of like the blue a little better, but it seems like the page designer should be deciding what color is displayed rather than the browser.

What's the scoop on that?

I can't wait to try out your program when I get home from work tonight.

Thanks for a great project.

[fatsheep]

@fatsheep

After looking at your before and after pictures of the google section, can you tell me howcome IE shows the thin line around the search box in faint blue, and FF is a gray colored box?

I kind of like the blue a little better, but it seems like the page designer should be deciding what color is displayed rather than the browser.

What's the scoop on that?
...

I don't know why IE does that and I am assuming you are talking about Windows Internet Explorer because IEs 4 Linux doesn't do that...

[crjackson]

I don't know why IE does that and I am assuming you are talking about Windows Internet Explorer because IEs 4 Linux doesn't do that...


Yes, I'm talking about Windows IE.

[fatsheep]

Yes, I'm talking about Windows IE.

It's just the style the designers gave it I guess, I've never bothered looking at IE to see how it works. I don't give much thought to closed source programs especially if they stink. :p

[crjackson]

It's just the style the designers gave it I guess, I've never bothered looking at IE to see how it works. I don't give much thought to closed source programs especially if they stink. :p

I just didn't know if the browser or the webpage maker did that.

[fatsheep]

I just didn't know if the browser or the webpage maker did that.

Well the browser probably has more control over how buttons are displayed than the web page creator does. This is why buttons look different in different browsers. Compare the buttons in Internet Explorer to those in Safari to those in Opera to those in Firefox. It's all the same code from the web developer that is being processed, the browsers just use different styles.

[crjackson]

I applied the widgets today. I really like the improvement. Thanks for a great piece of work.

[mekgp]

Very cool! Works great... :biggrin::biggrin:

[madscience]

For some reason, since applying this patch my radio buttons and checkboxes are completely invisible...

NM...

It seems that the form-widgets directory was set to no access for everyone but root... fixed that and it's all good

You might want to check that in the script

[fatsheep]

For some reason, since applying this patch my radio buttons and checkboxes are completely invisible...

NM...

It seems that the form-widgets directory was set to no access for everyone but root... fixed that and it's all good

You might want to check that in the script

That is very strange. It is especially strange that this has only happened to you (that I know of). You don't have a custom umask do you? How did you run the install script (did you use sudo to run it or did you run it in logged in as root)?

[tarntow]

definitely much more pleasant...thx

[nakul]

why is this not included in default ubuntu installation

[coolen]

Just wanted to drop you a line, and say, thank you. Makes my browser much easier on the eyes. Keep up the good work :)

[nothing4me]

Thank you. It looks so much better. :)

[Aserone]

Loving the widgets. Surely should be default, can't understand how I put up with the default so long.

Sorry if this has been asked before, but can't you get contact with the Mozilla foundation for a possible inclusion?

The people/person who designed the default ones must realize that the "win95" style of the widgets shipped isn't desirable for most users 2007.

[CowzRule]

You could add /opt/navigator to your browser path list. I have Navigator ver. 9.0b2 installed and your Widgets work great.

[naughtykid]

I'm Lovin it! Even better!

[el.motar]

Just to thank you for this excellent mod to firefox.
It does make it look more professional and as others have already mention, why is this work not included in the default firefox version?

Thanks
ATB

[insllvn]

Just installed the widgets and they really improve the aesthetic. I am having a bit of a problem with my radio buttons. They are only visible very briefly when clicked on. they don't show up before clicking and they are gone afterwards. I just grabbed the latest release and am running Ubuntu 7.04 and Firefox 2.0.0.6. Thanks for any help.

[hackle577]

Form controls do not work on searchmash.com for me.

[diffuze]

I'm using firefox32 on feisty fawn 64bit and I can't get this to work.
It works like a charm in "normal" firefox but I prefer ff32 due to the plugins.
I've read this thread over and over but I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. Can someone point me in the right direction?
:(

[profjohn]

Very nice, I'm using it on 64-bit Firefox and it looks great, just after I got Compiz Fusion working too :) Nice job :guitar:

[Alucard-sama]

Works perfectly with swiftfox, all I had to do was change the path to /usr/lib/swiftfox! ^^

[punkboy]

Does exactly what is says on the tin. Works like a champ. Thanks!

[crjackson]

Works perfectly for me on Firefox 64, Firefox 32, and Swiftfox 32. Thanks for the great work.

[emptythevoid]

Hey, I've been using your widgets for a while - absolutely love them.

Recently I've done a clean Xubuntu install and I installed the 2.7 widgets. They worked fine until I upgraded Firefox to 2.0.0.6. On at least one website I regularly visit, the radial buttons are completely gone, however the button enhancements still look good (on Google). I've tried uninstalling and re-installing to no avail (uninstalling does revert it back to the ugly widgets, but reinstalling just brings me back to missing radials but good buttons).

When I go ./install and choose option 1, I see a message saying:
Installing widgets to /usr/lib/firefox
Removing any previous installations of the widgets.
/usr/lib/firefox/res/form-widgets not found. No action taken.
The CSS does not appear to be installed.
/usr/lib/firefox/res/forms.css will not be edited.
Installing the images to /usr/lib/firefox/res/form-widgets.

Any thoughts? (and yes, I have been restarting Firefox during installations)

[Vic_Astro]

Fascinating! Thank you!

[Yizi]

Wow, That looks sweet nice job.

[-SpaZ]

Very nice. Firefox will look a lot better now.

[T-One]

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[fatsheep]

I'm using firefox32 on feisty fawn 64bit and I can't get this to work.
It works like a charm in "normal" firefox but I prefer ff32 due to the plugins.
I've read this thread over and over but I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. Can someone point me in the right direction?
:(

Does it not work at all (the same widgets)? What browser are you using? Are you sure you installed to the right path? Firefox32 is usually /usr/local/firefox32 but you might want to run dpkg -L firefox32 to check.

Hey, I've been using your widgets for a while - absolutely love them.

Recently I've done a clean Xubuntu install and I installed the 2.7 widgets. They worked fine until I upgraded Firefox to 2.0.0.6. On at least one website I regularly visit, the radial buttons are completely gone, however the button enhancements still look good (on Google). I've tried uninstalling and re-installing to no avail (uninstalling does revert it back to the ugly widgets, but reinstalling just brings me back to missing radials but good buttons).

When I go ./install and choose option 1, I see a message saying:
Installing widgets to /usr/lib/firefox
Removing any previous installations of the widgets.
/usr/lib/firefox/res/form-widgets not found. No action taken.
The CSS does not appear to be installed.
/usr/lib/firefox/res/forms.css will not be edited.
Installing the images to /usr/lib/firefox/res/form-widgets.

Any thoughts? (and yes, I have been restarting Firefox during installations)

I am using 2.0.0.6 as well but without problems. What websites display these problems with the radio buttons?

[diffuze]

Does it not work at all (the same widgets)? What browser are you using? Are you sure you installed to the right path? Firefox32 is usually /usr/local/firefox32 but you might want to run dpkg -L firefox32 to check.
Yes, it's in /usr/local/..
Maybe I'm misunderstanding here, so I took screenshots to show.
Note that "widgets" such as radiobuttons and "submitbuttons" (webpage stuff) works perfectly in both ff and ff32 now. However it's the appearance that doesn't work in ff32, the user interface. As you see below this includes the "linkbuttons" in the personal toolbar, and dialogboxes and everything.

To the left you see normal ff, to the right is ff32.

http://www.imgx.org/pfiles/1786/odd_ff.png http://www.imgx.org/pfiles/1787/odd_ff32.png

Just to clarify so we're talking about the same things. ;-)

BTW, this occurs in KDE. When in Gnome ff32 looks just smashing, like normal ff.

[coolen]

That's not the widgets (well, not those in Firefox).
Looks like you might have a dodgy Qt theme. I had something similar a while back in Gnome. One bad theme, and a whole heap of my windows came up in the ugly '95 scheme. I went back to a good theme, logged out and back in, and all was well...

[diffuze]

I'm using Polyester, and kgtk-wrapper to launch it.

[alfredo_cba]

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/2186/pantallazo2xi2.th.png (http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/2186/pantallazo2xi2.png)

having this problem in every forum, the look way too wide. anyone else with this problem?
thx

[jjgomera]

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/2186/pantallazo2xi2.th.png (http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/2186/pantallazo2xi2.png)

having this problem in every forum, the look way too wide. anyone else with this problem?
thx
maybe is a conflict with the firefox icons theme?

[madpotato]

Thanks for the prettier widgets. I've just tried the latest version (2.7) and it works very well (ubuntu/gnome/epiphany)

[madpotato]

Not a huge problem really, but I thought I'd report:
Search field in Google Reader is not replaced by the pretty version. In other words, it stays ugly. Please see the screenshot attached. http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=43471&stc=1&d=1189794854

[Zancarius]

Incidentally, this also works perfectly fine for Firefox running under Gentoo (the Firefox base is installed in /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox).

Awesome job on the installer--I used the shell script rather than the gui installer--and on the artwork! No more ugly widgets! This nifty find certainly made my day.

[moredhel]

Pity that this won't work with swiftweasel =[

[Rui Pais]

Pity that this won't work with swiftweasel =[

why? it's working normally here. Just give swiftweasel path, instead of firefox.

[altonbr]

Has this been submitted to http://launchpad.net/ubuntu for Gusty or Gusty+1 (Hardy) inclusion? Mark Shuttleworth did say that 'pretty is a spec' did he not?

I made a post about improving the aesthetics of Firefox here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=418424... I still think this should be a major bug/blueprint.

[BatPenguin]

Thanks! This works great.

Were you aware that this update was mentioned in the latest Linux Format magazine? Just figured you might be interested that it was mentioned, that's how I found it. Looks great, I installed it on both my machines (Edgy desktop, Feisty laptop), big improvement.

[taisao]

Is there something like this for konqueror? The radio buttons in konqueror doesn't look good.

[altonbr]

I've been told and shown that Firefox 3 has much prettier widgets than their current Firefox 2.0 counterparts: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=3376461&postcount=25

[godlessgeek]

Great...just what I needed.
Thanx a ton!

[mevets]

the script run with in the terminal no longer works for me, it is only when I use the gui installer that the widgets actually get installed. Is this bug known?

[schnupi]

found another bug...

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ET_Features/Financial_Times/Stock_markets_and_global_events/articleshow/2394437.cms

scroll down to the bottom where the comment box is it appears like half of the boxes are working and the other half not..

i made a screenshot below..

[mario.kostelac]

Works for me... I like it... Thank you

[Sturmeh]

Definately widgriffic!

[hypnos]

I'm not 100% sure but it seems that doesn't work with 2.0.0.7. After the latest upgrade of my distro (Arch Linux) the original forms are back. I've installed once again giving the new path of my FF location but nothing happens.

Can anyone confirm such problem?

[nikoPSK]

Love it! Wonderful! The buttons before looked pretty ugly (lolz Pretty Ugly) anyways Thanks alot!:KS

[Gourgi]

pretty nice feature
thanks for sharing :)
installed well on feisty 7.04 and also on gutsy 7.10

P.S. first post around !
you forced me to my 1st post to thank you :)

[nikoPSK]

works great. Using it on 7.10 and it definetely spunked things up!:KS

[Daedalus]

I just love these widgets. I think this should even be included on the repositories.

[Frak]

Ever think of making one for Thunderbird?

[nikoPSK]

certain apps still have that ugliness... Even under wine... Mabye some people could gang up and make wine look better:KS

[Frak]

certain apps still have that ugliness... Even under wine... Mabye some people could gang up and make wine look better:KS
The latest version of Wine has a feature that allows you to use Windows XP Themes (such as the default Luna) to make your programs under Wine run and look like its actual, running on Windows, counterpart.

[nikoPSK]

cool! Just switched back to 7.04 due to some tof my favorite things not running well (or at all). I need to download this again...:KS

[Frak]

cool! Just switched back to 7.04 due to some tof my favorite things not running well (or at all). I need to download this again...:KS
Remember if you have problems with Gutsy, report a bug so the final release is all the better ;)

https://bugs.launchpad.net/

[nikoPSK]

I reported three. But I got tired and am gonna wait till final release. Compiz is giving me poo right now... (thread):(

[Frak]

I reported three. But I got tired and am gonna wait till final release. Compiz is giving me poo right now... (thread):(
Did you right click on Desktop->Change Desktop Background->Visual Effects->"Custom" or "No Effects/None" ?

[nikoPSK]

I right click, Change background but I don't see a visual effects tab/ button...:confused:

[Frak]

I right click, Change background but I don't see a visual effects tab/ button...:confused:
You're in Gutsy right, and if you are, what are your Video/Graphics Card specs?

[nikoPSK]

nope I switched back to feisty this-morning.

I have an NVidia GeForce 5200 GTX:KS

[Frak]

nope I switched back to feisty this-morning.

I have an NVidia GeForce 5200 GTX:KS
ok, I was talking about Gutsy. Also, I heard CF Compiler installer script has gotten alot better too, you may want to try that, its much faster than the precompiled .deb binary.

[nikoPSK]

where would I find that? I searched google...:confused:

[Frak]

where would I find that? I searched google...:confused:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=508769

From what I've heard, it works great :)

[nikoPSK]

Thank you. The forums are a great tool. There should be a link on the apps menu in gutsy. :)

[mrojas73]

Worked great for me, thank you.

[GhostZrydA]

Just installed the RC of gutsy, and having used the widget fix without any problem on feisty fawn, on gutsy it works on the menu buttons, but the radio check buttons are missing.

Is this a known bug with the widget installer, or something else??

Hope someone can help, as i dont want to have to uninstall and go back to the horrible firefox widgets !

GhostZrydA

[Frak]

Just installed the RC of gutsy, and having used the widget fix without any problem on feisty fawn, on gutsy it works on the menu buttons, but the radio check buttons are missing.

Is this a known bug with the widget installer, or something else??

Hope someone can help, as i dont want to have to uninstall and go back to the horrible firefox widgets !

GhostZrydA
Try it again and see what happens.

[RAV TUX]

News

2.7 has been released (August 6th). There are no changes to the CSS. Changes are strictly to the graphic installer interface. The text entry for the installation path has been replaced with a combo entry containing a dropdown menu. The dropdown menu will "remember" previous installation/removal paths you have used and display them the next time you use it (assuming you don't delete the "paths" file it creates!). It will also display some standard installation paths for browsers such as '/usr/lib/firefox'. The browse button also now will go to the directory specified in the entry box instead of just automatically going to root.

Check out the screenshot below. :KS

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http://img365.imageshack.us/img365/32/firefoxwidgetsuiof2.png

One thing that has always bothered me about Ubuntu's firefox is that the buttons, radio buttons, drop down menus, text fields, and checkboxes (known as widgets) are very cruddy looking. Fortunately I found a simple way to fix this. What we have below is a replacement set of images and CSS code for the widgets which will make them much nicer on the eyes (see bottom of the post for screenshots).

The original widgets are done by Osmo Salomaa <otsaloma@cc.hut.fi>. I have written a bash script to make the installation and removal process easier. You can download this at the bottom of this post.

To run the graphic installer (for point and click installation and removal), simply unpack the archive anywhere you like, double click on the "graphic_installer", then select "Run". If you do not have the python-kiwi, it will be installed (python-kiwi is required for the graphical installer to run). It has been reported that on older Ubuntu's such as Dapper (6.06) this package is simply called "kiwi". If this is the case you will need to install that package by hand. After python-kiwi is installed (if it has not already been installed), the graphical installer will run (shown above).

Or, if you prefer, you can use the text based installer which does not require python-kiwi: open a shell, cd to the directory you unpacked the firefox widgets to and run install script (do this with the ./install command). Now you are presented with a menu.

Read the README for more information. Run the "install" script with the "--help" option for command line option help ("./install --help" works if you are in the same directory).

Also make sure you are installing to the path of your Firefox directory. By default this script installs to /usr/lib/firefox (which is the default location). If that is not your Firefox directory you can change it easily. If you are using the graphic installer it will ask you for the path. If you are using the text installer ("install" script), then you can enter a new path at the main menu or use the "--path=PATH" or "-p=PATH" command line options to set a path (run the "--help" option for more information).

I should also mention, I have included a backup forms.css file incase you mess anything up. This file is from a default 64-bit Firefox 2.0 installation. The forms.css file an be found in Firefox's "res" directory. You won't need my backup unless you accidently delete your's or the script malfunctions (in which case please contact me).

Buttons
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/9933/buttoncomparisonit7.png

Check Boxes
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/4695/checkboxcomparisongb7.png

Radio Buttons
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/5641/radiobuttoncomparisonyz0.png

Drop Down Menus
http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/7093/scrollercomparisoniy8.png

Text Fields
Due to image limitations on the forum I've got to hyperlink this image:
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/4117/textfieldcomparisondz6.png

Before


After
http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/9629/newgooglexq7.png

Note:

If you are tired of the widgets getting restored after every Firefox update, try this command:

sudo dpkg-divert --add <INSERT FIREFOX ROOT DIRECTORY HERE>/res/forms.cssThis should prevent the file from getting updated when Firefox does. To remove this:

sudo dpkg-divert --remove <INSERT FIREFOX ROOT DIRECTORY HERE>/res/forms.cssLet me know if this technique works or not, I have not tested it.

Revisions

1.1 (March 24th 2007) - Fixes a bug where the widgets override the Ubuntu forum's default "Go!" button (to the right of the search box in the top right). I'm assuming this bug could also appear on other sites but have not seen it.
1.2 (June 8th 2007) - Fixes a bug that distorted buttons on this website: http://www.extjs.com/deploy/ext/docs/index.html.
1.5 BETA - All past bug fixes have been made by removal of specific !important statements in the CSS that overrode web page defaults. In this BETA I have removed all !important statements in the CSS. Please report any problems.
1.6 BETA (June 9th 2007) - The removal of a few !important statements caused the corruption of radio buttons, checkboxes, and some text fields. These !important statements have been edited back in to correct the problem.
1.7 BETA (June 9th 2007) - python-kiwi now automatically installs when you choose to run the graphic interface. Added information for LKRaider to the "AUTHORS" file.
1.8 BETA (June 10th 2007) - Minor bug fixes: a typo in the graphic_installer file that may have caused the prompt to install python-kiwi to pop up when it shouldn't have as well as a fix for a bug where buttons would expand to the right and left when selected.
1.9 BETA (June 13th 2007) - Removes the margin from buttons so they wil be located in the right place.
2.0 BETA (June 14th 2007) - Added messages to the graphic installer and to the text installer instructing the user to restart firefox after installation or removal. The python-kiwi package is now installed in an xterm terminal. Fixed a bug in the graphic_installer script. Minor changes to the install script (I removed a lot of messages to make the output of the script less verbose).
2.1 (June 17th 2007) - Increased text input border to 2 px and removed padding and margin from dropdowns. Minor message changes to the script and graphic installer. Minor changes to the README. Removed borders from active (clicked on), disabled radio buttons.
2.2 (June 19th 2007) - Added reinstallation option. The graphic installer now tells you what type of change was completed (installation, removal, or reinstallation) instead of just "changes applied". Install script modified so that it doesn't produce messages already being displayed by the GUI. Fixed a re-occuring problem where disabled radio buttons were deformed. Fixes the size of checkboxes at 12 pixels and radio buttons at 13 pixels in order to avoid the tiling of radio or checkbox images when larger sizes are used like in this website: http://govsearch.publications.gov.au/search/search.cgi?collection=pubs&chksummary=chksummary&fscope=512&form=simple&fqp=1&query=book.
2.3 (June 20th 2007) - Fixed bug #2: deformed radio buttons on http://www.vietfinsv.net/ due to borders and background-colors that conflict with the site's defaults.
2.4 (June 21st 2007) - Fixed bug #3: Deformed checkbox on http://forums.invisionpower.com/index.php?act=Search. Removed reinstallation (upgrade) option. The install option now can install over previous installations of the Firefox Widgets. Modified the installation script to make better use of functions.
2.5 (July 9th 2007) - Radio buttons now gray out when disabled, show a slightly different color when active (pressed), and drop down menus show the correct button image.
2.6 (July 11th 2007) - Fixed a bug where the image for the drop down menu did not display properly on http://arcticmonkeys.trinitystreetdirect.com/. Borders are also now removed from dropdown menus.
2.7 (August 6th 2007) - Improved the graphic installer so it now has a dropdown menu to select standard install paths from as well as the previous 5 installation or removal paths. The number "5" is one that I picked and is set by the max_saved_path variable in ff_widgets.py. You can change it if you like. All installation/removal paths are saved in the "paths" file (path_file variable in ff_widgets.py if you want to change this name). The browse button also now opens to the directory specified in the entry field.

Is there a .xpi available?

__________________

http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=46333&d=1192382949

[GhostZrydA]

Try it again and see what happens.

No luck, no matter what method is used, so used the un-install , and then installed manually.

Opened the "forms.css" file in the /usr/lib/firefox/res folder.

Copied the contents of the "forms-extra.css" file to the bottom of "forms.css" saved, then copied the "form-widgets" folder to the "res" folder.

restart firefox, problem solved.!

Hope a new graphic installer is released for better gutsy support.

GhostZrydA

[Frak]

No luck, no matter what method is used, so used the un-install , and then installed manually.

Opened the "forms.css" file in the /usr/lib/firefox/res folder.

Copied the contents of the "forms-extra.css" file to the bottom of "forms.css" saved, then copied the "form-widgets" folder to the "res" folder.

restart firefox, problem solved.!

Hope a new graphic installer is released for better gutsy support.

GhostZrydA
I just had the same problem (Kubuntu Gutsy Gibbon)

I used the CLI installer and it worked fine (once I made a few modifications)

[boolat]

hello,

I have big error in the console firefox.... ?
How to delete firefox ?
and install?

thx.

[Frak]

hello,

I have big error in the console firefox.... ?
How to delete firefox ?
and install?

thx.
Try
sudo dpkg-reconfigure firefox

[toasterofirony]

Oh, brilliant. That fixes the problems I had after installing the Gutsy RC :)

[veratyr]

wow! that looks great. +1

[crjackson]

Works great for me too, but for some reason the google home page has the search buttons actually touching the bottom of the search box. I have 3 machines of different configs. doing the same thing.

Does this happen to anyone else or only me?

[swj]

Works great for me too, but for some reason the google home page has the search buttons actually touching the bottom of the search box. I have 3 machines of different configs. doing the same thing.

Does this happen to anyone else or only me?

Its happens on my install too. Gusty FF 2.0.0.8

In the preview posted in the thread, it does not touch.

[ZacDavis]

Same here, but otherwise this works great.

[crjackson]

I just did a fresh install of Gutsy and can't get the widgets to work. The install runs and I've selected every available path. It runs and installs but I doesn't change anything. This is the first time this has happened for me. What am I doing wrong?

What information to you need to help me fix this?

[explemonk]

The buttons are showing up right under the search box on Google for me, too, but they are also doing it without the new widgets installed, as well as in Konqueror and Opera on this install, and Firefox, IE, Opera, Netscape, and Safari on my Windows box. I suspect it's Google's page that is the issue.

[sleepyenglish]

How come this doesn't come pre-installed with ubuntu, i cant see any down side in using it and its positives are clear to see.

[michaelzap]

I just did a fresh install of Gutsy and can't get the widgets to work. The install runs and I've selected every available path. It runs and installs but I doesn't change anything. This is the first time this has happened for me. What am I doing wrong?

What information to you need to help me fix this?

The same thing was happening to me, but eventually I figured out that I had to install into opt/swiftfox and then it worked as usual.

[nikoPSK]

Umm, in my favourite site lifehacker the search has been screwed up. I am sure this is due to the widgets... Is there any way to fix this? And I know this seems off topic but how do you attach more files once your post has been made?:)

[coolen]

How come this doesn't come pre-installed with ubuntu, i cant see any down side in using it and its positives are clear to see.

Firefox 3 will include much better integration with GTK (not sure about QT). You can download the beta from the Universe repo (I think), but it's still quite unstable. Mine crashed whenever I tried to change themes.

[boeing777]

hi, i successfully installed it but there's one problem, my buttons seems to be inverted. buttons are dark grey, hovering over a button makes it whiter,

[nikoPSK]

Umm, in my favourite site lifehacker the search has been screwed up. I am sure this is due to the widgets... Is there any way to fix this? And I know this seems off topic but how do you attach more files once your post has been made?:)

anyone?

[explemonk]

Umm, in my favourite site lifehacker the search has been screwed up. I am sure this is due to the widgets... Is there any way to fix this?

anyone?

Lifehacker looks fine on my install. Are you sure it's the widget replacements causing it? What happens if you uninstall the widgets and access the site?

[Frak]

Looks fine to me.

[nikoPSK]

the thing is cut in half and its hard to access. It is the widgets
I unistalled em. It was fine. Put em back, got the problem again.I like them better than the defaults so they stay. I want to know how to fix this though.

[erlinux]

does this work for epiphany?

[Jegsy]

Thanks for post. I've just installed the widgets and Firefox looks more like the way it should. \\:D/ One thing I cannot understand though - why does Firefox not look as good by default in Linux/Ubuntu as it does in windows?

[thelinx]

@nikoPSK:

Looks fine to me too.

[nikoPSK]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!! No it isn't!!!! God let me circle it for you:

http://img35.picoodle.com/img/img35/6/11/3/t_Screenshotm_fd48267.png (http://www.picoodle.com/view.php?img=/6/11/3/f_Screenshotm_fd48267.png&srv=img35)

[thelinx]

Not messed up for me.

Also, is it just me, or is the text boxes and buttons on FPSBanana (http://www.fpsbanana.com/) wrongly bordered?

[Twizz]

Worked for me on 7.10 also. I used the terminal install.

[KhaaL]

fatsheep, are you going to release a similiar thing for granparadiso (firefox 3.0) aswell? I think your version of widgets looks much nicer than FF 3.0 :)

[markoloka]

How do i make this widgets being there after kernel updates etc. or do i have to install after each update?? Don't wanna read all those pages in this topic
Nice work anyway.

[coolen]

They should remain after kernel updates. Only update that might affect it is a Firefox update, and then I imagine only a major version release would break it.

[Frak]

How do i make this widgets being there after kernel updates etc. or do i have to install after each update?? Don't wanna read all those pages in this topic
Nice work anyway.
Firefox updates are what you worry about, kernel updates don't do anything to any other applications but the kernel itself.

Run
sudo dpkg-divert --add /usr/lib/firefox/res/forms.css

[lydia Pack]

Hi, looks great, but I was wondering is there any way that you can actually make the drop downs work like the safari menu ie have the contents of the list show up above and below the selected item, and when you use an alpha short cut on the keyboard to get to an item have it automatically enter in (rather than having to push enter). Or is this a bit to much to ask of firefox?

[crjackson]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!! No it isn't!!!! God let me circle it for you:

http://img35.picoodle.com/img/img35/6/11/3/t_Screenshotm_fd48267.png (http://www.picoodle.com/view.php?img=/6/11/3/f_Screenshotm_fd48267.png&srv=img35)

It works fine for me...

[nikoPSK]

well, it doesnt for me...:(

[reppekjeks]

Thank you so much for this fix. I've been wondering why this has been a problem and if there was a way to fix it, but now i don't have to anymore. It works perfectly. Thanks again. :)

[disturbedite]

kubuntu hardy/firefox 3.0-trunk (test daily builds)

ok, i've got several questions about this.

1. i test daily builds of ff3 (trunk). has anyone tested this with trunk & if so, what are/were your results? does it work correctly with trunk?
2. with trunk, if i were to use this, every day i updated ff wouldn't this be overwritten by the update?
3. since i'm on kde (kubuntu), the preferred way to use this would be to use it along side prettywidgets like userundefined suggests, correct?
4. in regards to question 3, is there anything else i can do to get tighter integration of ff with kde/qt?

[Frak]

For #4, you have to change your theme in KDE Control Center, such as what OpenSUSE uses.

[thetimekeeper]

Very cool work, worked flawlessly on mine, just ran the graphic install and I was set.