Firefox Theme Updating

[Bobbin Threadbare]

Is it possible to update theme, that is not my own to make it compatible to Firefox 1.5?

[23meg]

Only if it has a compatibility update for Firefox 1.5. You can see its current compatibility status in its page on addons.mozilla.org, and if you do a check for updates and you have the "Installed extensions and themes" option checked in Preferences / Advanced / Update, it will automatically check anyway.

[Bobbin Threadbare]

They probably won't update it as it came with a huge forum of themes. All mostly by the same person.

[kperkins]

You probably can do it yourself, if you want, and their license for the theme permits. (You'd probably have to ask the author of the theme about that.)

[Bobbin Threadbare]

Yes, but I want to know how to do that.

[kperkins]

Well, basically, I'd say open up a theme .jar (jars are just renamed zip archives which hold the files for the theme) and look to see how it's done. There aren't a whole lot of tutorials on theming firefox, but, here's a post from mozillazine: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=345753&sid=efa82b5ea41f138ad5e2a5bfac1a7018
and this:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Dev_:_Themes
and this from mozilla.org:
http://www.mozilla.org/catalog/end-user/customizing/themes/
That's the best I can do, since I've never done a FF theme.

[Bobbin Threadbare]

I already knew about the "*.jar -> *.zip" thing. And just another question. how do you install themes from your desktop? I try to open it in Firefox but it thinks it's some Java extension. Any ideas? As for those links. I'll check them out now.

[Logic*]

I believe if you open the theme window and drag the .jar into it then it will prompt you for install.