Firefox Widgets

[disturbedite]

For #4, you have to change your theme in KDE Control Center, such as what OpenSUSE uses.
thanks for the response, but i know that. i have the gtk option set to use my kde style in gtk apps, but beyond that type of thing is what i was wondering...

[Frak]

thanks for the response, but i know that. i have the gtk option set to use my kde style in gtk apps, but beyond that type of thing is what i was wondering...
That's what I mean, for UI integration use a theme that complements GTK apps as well as its QT counterparts.

[bettermentflux]

Have you considered contacting the powers that be to see if the CSS bits can be incorporated into the upcoming Firefox 3?

I understand that they are making efforts to make the icons more gnome/tango-centric.

Alex Faaborg posted an update on their efforts today: http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg/2007/11/13/update-on-the-firefox-3-linux-theme/

He may be the person to contact.

Cheers!

[disturbedite]

@ bettermentflux
yes they are. it landed today actually.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b2pre) Gecko/2007111504 Minefield/3.0b2pre - Build ID: 2007111504

[zhaoxmmusic]

It's great except that I can not see any widgets when I tried to print the page..
I guess it is because of the alpha transparency of the PNGs?
is it possible to use another set of widgets for print ?

[djrobthaman]

Quick question... and apologies if this has been asked and answered already and I skipped over it in my searchings, but can this package be installed properly in gutsy?

I used to use the alt widgets in feisty and loved it but keep having no luck since the upgrade.

Any info on how to get this to work correctly would be great.

Thanks

[taisao]

Quick question... and apologies if this has been asked and answered already and I skipped over it in my searchings, but can this package be installed properly in gutsy?

I used to use the alt widgets in feisty and loved it but keep having no luck since the upgrade.

Any info on how to get this to work correctly would be great.

Thanks

I don't know if this work, but you could try:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3539219&highlight=gutsy#post3539219

[crjackson]

Quick question... and apologies if this has been asked and answered already and I skipped over it in my searchings, but can this package be installed properly in gutsy?

I used to use the alt widgets in feisty and loved it but keep having no luck since the upgrade.

Any info on how to get this to work correctly would be great.

Thanks

It works fine for me in Gutsy.

[winkman]

Hi.. I've just installed the Firefox Widgets package on Firefox 2.0.0.8 using Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) and it's working fantastically... :)
Thank you so much. (Now my forms look sexy... :P )
Mitch

[Nicostarnux]

Hello,

I'm using swiftfox too but mine is in /usr/lib/swiftfox ...

using http://getswiftfox.com/builds/debian unstable non-free as a source on ubuntu 7.10

Works well ;)

[Old Pink]

This doesn't work on Firefox 2.0.0.10
Installing widgets to /usr/lib/firefox
Removing any previous installations of the widgets.
/usr/lib/firefox/res/form-widgets not found. No action taken.
Removing the appended CSS code from /usr/lib/firefox/res/forms.css
Installing the images to /usr/lib/firefox/res/form-widgets.
cp: cannot stat `form-widgets': No such file or directory
Appending contents of forms-extra.css to /usr/lib/firefox/res/forms.css.
cat: forms-extra.css: No such file or directory
And no change after to buttons, etc.

The /usr/lib/firefox/res (file:///usr/lib/firefox/res/) folder has also changed a fair bit.

Just a heads up. :)

[Ramses de Norre]

It works on firefox 2.0.0.10 (Arch linux version) here, the only thing I noticed is that the little arrow icon in a drop down menu isn't there anymore.
I just appended forms-extra.css to forms.css and copied the widgets directory into my res directory.

[twright]

this is great, maybe you should contact the automatix guys, this could be included with that

also this could be included in the ubufox addon

[nikoPSK]

wonderful, kudos. But why doesn't ubuntu/ mozilla adapt this for ubuntu? That would be great.

[Vadi]

One of the first things I did on a new install was get this. Excellent work.

[tarntow]

I have tried to reinstall firefox widgets_2.7 with the lastest release on swiftfox and firefox 2.0.0.11 but it's not been able to anything...??

[jvc26]

Nice work, with a little alteration this also works perfectly on Fedora 8... finally, a nice firefox regardless of linux flavour :)
Il

[Ssurgul]

Sorry for the delay, but I just got Gutsy working the way I like on my workstation and opted to get your widgets installed finally. They're looking spectacular!

[pipebkn]

great , i just installed on firefox 2.0.0.10 on ubuntu 2.04, and it work!!
thanks very much

[en23]

I'm using a dual-boot system (ubuntu and vista) and was using the same profile folder for firefox on both systems so far.
widgets works fine with ubuntu, but firefox does not start using vista.
i don't really know how widgets works, but as far as i comprehend it is based on changed images and css code.
is there any way this could work with vista?
it really looks fine and i'd like to keep it.
Thanks

[reppekjeks]

I have tried to reinstall firefox widgets_2.7 with the lastest release on swiftfox and firefox 2.0.0.11 but it's not been able to anything...??I was having some problems with that myself. I ran the graphical installer (GI) and after selecting install and clicking apply nothing happened. Nothing happened when selecting remove either. Tried rebooting but it didn't work either. Finally I deleted the firefox widgets_2.7 folder from my desktop and extracted the tar again. Ran the GI and everything was ok. So it seems that some files in my previous folder was broken. Have no idea how that happened. I know for a fact that it worked yesterday.:confused: Anyway, I'm sure it's not the same problem you're facing, but it might be worth a shot?

[choppermad]

Just installed 2.7...LOVE IT.

[Frankly Francois]

Hey, thanks a lot for your work! I too just installed 2.7. It's much, much better on the eyes.

[tarntow]

I was having some problems with that myself. I ran the graphical installer (GI) and after selecting install and clicking apply nothing happened. Nothing happened when selecting remove either. Tried rebooting but it didn't work either. Finally I deleted the firefox widgets_2.7 folder from my desktop and extracted the tar again. Ran the GI and everything was ok. So it seems that some files in my previous folder was broken. Have no idea how that happened. I know for a fact that it worked yesterday.:confused: Anyway, I'm sure it's not the same problem you're facing, but it might be worth a shot?

your trick worked a treat..simple but effective...nice one

[phatdad]

Just for the record, have just done the widgets thing, and it has improved the look of things loads. Big thanks and well done from me! (Firefox v2.0.0.11 on Edgy)

[volneilo]

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.

After hours, I was finally enlightened by michaelzap's statement: installed it in /opt/firefox and... bingo! Before that, I've tried Firefox folders in /usr/lib and /usr/share, but nothing happens. Now it's ok for me too! Thanks a lot!

Firefox 2.0.0.8 in Gutsy here :) .

[Arthur Archnix]

You know what's amazing to me, is how long I've been using these widgets of yours, in all that time after all the updates they are still required. Have you considered submitting them to Firefox as a patch? In the meanwhile, I will continue to apply your beautiful fix.

Thanks.

[Old Pink]

This doesn't seem to work in Firefox 2.0.0.11.

In 2.0.0.10 I had to do the modification manually. In 2.0.0.11 it just won't work. At best I can get some disfiguration on buttons and radio buttons.

Time for 2.8?

[Desigen]

Hi, I would like to say thanks

It's a great job

[gary4gar]

I can confirm it works great even on hardy alpha one with Firefox 2.0.0.11

[radovan01]

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[faical117]

thanks worked perfectly !:guitar:

[tomauty]

They should put this in the next Ubuntu release.

[Gourgi]

They should put this in the next Ubuntu release.
+1

[faical117]

wow Looks very good thanks :-)

[ptgoce]

Hi,
I have just installed this widgets in Mac OS X (10.5.1 - Leopard) and it works just fine, thanks a lot!
It is exactly what Firefox for Mac was missing.

If anyone wants to know how, just run
./install -p=/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/ and than select option 1 :)

Great job man, thanks again!

[kishorebudha]

It doesn't seem to be working all that well for me (7.10 and Firefox 2.0.0.11). I inadvertently posted it here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=648095

[v1ncent]

It works perfect, but i have a problem: my GNOME Theme is BLACK, but i don't wanna see black widgets in Firefox... so, there is a way to fully customize widgets? maybe selecting a different gnome theme?

I would like to use this black theme in my system, but another one in Firefox, is that possible?

[v1ncent]

Something more simple: Is there a way to change the colors of the text and background from TEXT FIELDS in firefox?

[taisao]

Something more simple: Is there a way to change the colors of the text and background from TEXT FIELDS in firefox?

Yes. Using Stylish extension - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108

[v1ncent]

Thank you taisao, it works perfect now.
=)

[ikt]

Is this stuff included in the release now?

[ST.x]

Is this stuff included in the release now?
This won't be needed for firefox 3.0 I think.

[HIFH]

Wow. Really nice.

Should be included as standard. Using on 7.10, fits much better than the original widgets. This is much more ubuntu, the defaults are more windows, too much windows.

Good job!

[Xanatos Craven]

This won't be needed for firefox 3.0 I think.
Dunno about how others see it, but personally, I find Firefox 3's current rendering of form controls more irritating than the plain, (IMO) inoffensive ones Firefox 2 was spitting out. There should not be big grey borders around all the form controls, even if they're native. Mozilla probably won't, but I really hope they don't release the final version like that...

[BL00dFox]

This is awesome. The default firefox is too choppy-like and it feels uncomfortable! :guitar:

[warnec]

Fantastic! That's what I was missing in Gmail. Thank you.

[nikoPSK]

Does this work for mac's firefox? Like, I mean, a widget system. :confused:

[Azakus]

Does this work for mac's firefox? Like, I mean, a widget system. :confused:

It should. You will definitely have to change the paths though. Mac firefox's install path is different than in Linux.
Other than that, the only thing that changes is the forms.css file, which should be platform neutral.

[nikoPSK]

It should. You will definitely have to change the paths though. Mac firefox's install path is different than in Linux.
Other than that, the only thing that changes is the forms.css file, which should be platform neutral.

I'll be sure to give that a try. :)

[cookies]

Dunno about how others see it, but personally, I find Firefox 3's current rendering of form controls more irritating than the plain, (IMO) inoffensive ones Firefox 2 was spitting out. There should not be big grey borders around all the form controls, even if they're native. Mozilla probably won't, but I really hope they don't release the final version like that...

It's your theme's fault. Back in the day (<_<) there was an issue with Clearlooks, so to fix it, the Clearlooks folks made a hack, which puts borders around buttons (they were not expecting native widgets in the HTML area), years passed, and the hack is no longer necessary, but people forgot about it, and it stuck. Most themes are based on Clearlooks, so their offending coding needs to be removed, but it is not all Firefox's fault.

[porkepik]

Huge thanks, it worked great in my ubuntu v7.10 :)

[nikoPSK]

How can I make my own set? :)

nikoPSK

[SanskritFritz]

Thank you, works like charm. Very nice improvement!

[herbster]

Hi there, I am using this and I must say it's excellent, really makes the fields and outlines look great!

I am wondering how I can change the colour of buttons, though, as I'm using a dark theme and they were the grey-ish that they normally are before I installed this but now they appear as such:

Please click to see (http://www.bobgill.net/gmail.jpg)

I'd like to make those buttons some shades lighter and text white or something for better visibility. TIA for any help!

[ST.x]

Hi there, I am using this and I must say it's excellent, really makes the fields and outlines look great!

I am wondering how I can change the colour of buttons, though, as I'm using a dark theme and they were the grey-ish that they normally are before I installed this but now they appear as such:

Please click to see (http://www.bobgill.net/gmail.jpg)

I'd like to make those buttons some shades lighter and text white or something for better visibility. TIA for any help!
I think those buttons looks nice with your firefox theme actually, can you link me?

thanks

[herbster]

I'm using the NASA Space theme, grab it from addons.mozilla.org.

And yeah, I'd just like to make the text on the buttons whiter if anything :)

[derixc]

Thanks a lot man! You rock. I also have it posted on my blog. Ubuntusite.com (http://ubuntusite.com) This is very helpful

[alxjl]

It worked on my lappy running Gutsy. Thanks a lot.

[dotancohen]

The widgets make the form fields on this site look like smilies:
http://what-is-what.com
Note the "Google Search" buttons.

[nikoPSK]

The widgets make the form fields on this site look like smilies:
http://what-is-what.com
Note the "Google Search" buttons.

doesn't the new ff have better widgits (3)?

[David Valentine]

Thanks for this! Now if I can just figure out how to increment your "thanks" count...

[Vadi]

I'm afraid you can't "thank" posts that were made before the "thanks" system was in. That includes the original post in here :|

Otherwise, it's the little medal bottom-right of the post.

[anando]

Worked perfectly - thanks a lot.

[eFFeeMMe]

They work like a charm, thanks!

[MeURi]

Thanks for the good work. Beautiful widgets are what I miss from Windows :-P

Just one thing: buttons seem to receive light from bottom-right, instead of top-left.
I mean: the one-pixel white line is placed on the right and bottom side of buttons, instead of being on the left and top (as I see from your screenshots). Did something go wrong during setup? I used version 2.7

Anyway, it's not that important, at least for me :-)

[heartburnkid]

Not too shabby, but the buttons don't look good under the Crux theme. Is there a way to install everything but the buttons?

[escobar_]

Thanks, my Flock looks so much better now. :)

[Aikon-]

I'm getting something a bit weird when I install the widgets.. actually, this has happened for as many versions as I can remember, I've just never bothered to post about it until now.

The spacing between text boxes and buttons seems to be off (see the attached image of Google, how the text boxes touch the bottom of the text box).

-Aikon

[octaedro7]

It's not working on FFX 2.0.0.13, no widgets at all.
Screenshot attached

[jjgomera]

It's not working on FFX 2.0.0.13, no widgets at all.
Screenshot attached
in your atatchment buttons and text file are correct, the problem is only with radiobuttons, isnt it?
its work fine for me with 2.0.0.13

[octaedro7]

Good and bad news you gave me.
I really don't know what happens then :(.
I've tried several times and also tried with the defaul profile (no extensions or themes installed) and the problem is the same. I've tried FF widgets a lot in the past, even the same version and have always worked.
Here is what I get when installing it:

gonzalo@latitude:~/Downloads/firefox_widgets_2.7$ ./install
1 ) Install Firefox widgets.
2 ) Remove Firefox widgets.
3 ) Specify a new installation/removal path.
4 ) Scroll the help file.
5 ) Exit.
Select an Option: 1
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.
[sudo] password for gonzalo:
Appending contents of forms-extra.css to /usr/lib/firefox/res/forms.css.
Installation complete. Please restart Firefox.
Does any one have a clue?

Thanks in advance

[jjgomera]

you must check the correct path for firefox, that message terminal i think say that.

For example, i have firefox in /usr/lib/firefox but almost directory, including res are link to other location: /usr/share/firefox, so you could try to install with that path if it exists in your system

and i thik is fine for me:

[Vadi]

Not working in FF3 in 8.04 :(

[Rui Pais]

Not working in FF3 in 8.04 :(

Firefox 3 use the widgets of the underlying DE (at least with gnome/xfce/e17 it uses the widgets of gtk theme).
It integrates better and don't require this workaround.

[Vadi]

I require it, I don't like the integration. Internet isn't the same as gnome, hence, the internet things with gnome buttons and such stuck on top of it looks really weird.

[Rui Pais]

I require it, I don't like the integration. Internet isn't the same as gnome, hence, the internet things with gnome buttons and such stuck on top of it looks really weird.

Not gnome, gtk. And should be tuned according the gtk theme you have.
Not sure how it reacts with QT or .NET...

It's kind of strange that an application should look differently from the rest of DE just because it's surf Internet ;)
I don't know if it's possible to change independently of DE widgets anyway... i read somewhere something about overriding default's .css options.
Maybe doing a search on that....

[z0mbie]

So will Hardy make this script obsolete? :[ It's like my favorite script.

[Vadi]

Yes, it did. The program says it finished successfully but the buttons are still gtk ones (with non-standard web sizes). Ugh :(

Edit: it's not as much as hardy as firefox 3 I think. I am suspecting atm that ff3 uses different paths, and it might be fixed when ff3 is officially out.

[bornagainpenguin]

So will Hardy make this script obsolete? :[ It's like my favorite script.

Ditto this.

I know the Hardy Heron version of Firefox 3.0 is supposed to use the gtk theme's widgets, but quite frankly those look ugly to me when compared with the widgets in this thread. Can someone please report how to patch this?

--bornagainpenguin

[fhantazm]

Works GREAT on my install of Hardy 8.04 and FF 3b5. No problems whatsoever! Thanks!

[Vadi]

:( I changed the path from the default usr/lib/firefox to the beta 5 one, but still nothing.

[Aikon-]

Ditto this.

I know the Hardy Heron version of Firefox 3.0 is supposed to use the gtk theme's widgets, but quite frankly those look ugly to me when compared with the widgets in this thread. Can someone please report how to patch this?

--bornagainpenguin

Solution.. make GTK widgets look like the ones in this script?

[crjackson]

I actually like the widgets on Firefox 3 so I won't be changing them anytime soon. However, I still have several systems running Gutsy and these widgets are the only way to go. thanks again...

[fatsheep]

Hey everyone. Sorry I haven't checked this topic in a long time. However, I just upgraded to Hardy Heron 8.04 and I'm glad to find that Firefox 3 now has good integrated widgets.

This script has always been a workaround. Whenever I tried to fix one bug, several others would pop up. Now I think the ideal solution is just to use the default widgets in Firefox 3. I'm not sure why the people who have Gutsy are using this script? It doesn't seem like this script is necessary any longer.

[Frak]

Hey everyone. Sorry I haven't checked this topic in a long time. However, I just upgraded to Gutsy Gibbon 8.04 and I'm glad to find that Firefox 3 now has good integrated widgets.

This script has always been a workaround. Whenever I tried to fix one bug, several others would pop up. Now I think the ideal solution is just to use the default widgets in Firefox 3. I'm not sure why the people who have Gutsy are using this script? It doesn't seem like this script is necessary any longer.
Do you mean Hardy?

[HandyAndy]

The widgets installer works perfectly on Swiftweasel too (Ubuntu 8.04 and Swiftweasel 2.0.0.14 from the repos).

The install path is: /usr/local/swiftweasel

[fatsheep]

Do you mean Hardy?

Yea, my mistake. All these stupid animal names... ;)

[Vadi]

It's just a matter of preference. I got used to the old ones, and like them better - because really, the un-gnome sizes of internet buttons + gnome pallette on them != integration. For me.

Can't get the script working again unfortunately, but thanks anyways for making it!

[Xiong Chiamiov]

Hey everyone. Sorry I haven't checked this topic in a long time. However, I just upgraded to Hardy Heron 8.04 and I'm glad to find that Firefox 3 now has good integrated widgets.

This script has always been a workaround. Whenever I tried to fix one bug, several others would pop up. Now I think the ideal solution is just to use the default widgets in Firefox 3. I'm not sure why the people who have Gutsy are using this script? It doesn't seem like this script is necessary any longer.
Just because I'm using Hardy doesn't mean I'm using a beta version of Firefox...

Yes, it's what's in the repos, but I'm using Swiftweasel anyway. That's the reason I stopped using Swifterfox a while ago - it switched to using the 3-branch betas.

[miwaypet]

Just used it on swiftweasel. Worked perfectly. Thanks!

[N'Jal]

I use flock 2 beta, which ok yes, is based on firefox3 but the drop down widgets look the same as they did on firefox2. So I prefer using this script to tidy up the last of the gui elements that have not been fixed.

If someone is still maintaining it I would be grateful.

[karlmp]

just upgrade to hardy heron

[hsa2]

I'm using this cool thing with swiftweasel. But there are some missing icons for read-only icons. For example, read only radio buttons are the ones that i could notice. Can you please add them to installation?

[hsa2]

Anyone supporting this stuff anymore?

[FlyingIsFun1217]

Probably not, since Firefox 3 on Linux has support to use native GTK widgets.

FlyingIsFun1217