Firefox +1 Mega Thread

[lovinglinux]

Actually, all of them, unfortunately. I still have the menu, as 3.6 had. I would rather have the default settings for FF4 or return to 3.6 if that is possible.

Please run these commands in a terminal:

echo 'Ubuntu Architecture' > ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
uname -a >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo 'Ubuntu Version' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
cat /etc/lsb-release >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo 'Firefox Packages' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
dpkg --get-selections | grep 'firefox*' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo 'Firefox binaries' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
which firefox >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
file /usr/bin/firefox >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
file /usr/local/bin/firefox >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
file /opt/firefox/firefox >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo 'Firefox divertion' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
file /usr/bin/firefox.ubuntu >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo 'Sources' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
ls /etc/apt/sources.list.d >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
firefox ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt

They will generate a file named firefox-report.txt in your Desktop. Copy the contents of that file and post here, so I can diagnose your problem.

BTW, the first post states that you should have chosen one method only. Running them all only cause trouble.

[lithopsian]

Way too complicated - For me anyways.

The icons I want to use are in FF 4 on my Windows machine. the ones I want to replace are on my Linux machines. I don't understand how your method is supposed to work given the different machines.

I wish there was a a "themes" folder and all the little button icons were .png files in that folder. It would be so easy to swap things around that way.

But there is! Open up a theme xpi file and that is exactly what you'll find. Almost! Take a theme you can live with and replace icons to your heart's content. Probably the biggest wrinkle you'll find with that idea is that many of the icons will be combined into fairly large images containing dozens of icons. This is, or was, done for performance reasons so that Firefox doesn't have to read thousands of tiny files. It is most important where an icon might flip between states like hover or active. Since themes are packed into xpi files, and in some cases jar files within the xpi file, I don't think this is a big issue any more, but I haven't looked into it. In any case, just work with the setup you have and change icons one for one wherever you find them. Lot of work though.

If you can't transfer images between your Windows and Linux machine then I'm going to guess that modifying a theme is way beyond you. It would actually be possible to create your theme on Windows!

Another approach would be to modify a GTK theme, since Firefox primarily uses GTK icons. Unfortunately there are a few custom icons and these are probably the ones you are most interested in changing

[alexis44]

This is what I got back:

Ubuntu Architecture

Linux jennifer-T3616 2.6.35-28-generic #49-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 1 14:40:58 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux

Ubuntu Version

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=maverick
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.10"

Firefox Packages

firefox install
firefox-globalmenu install

Firefox binaries

/usr/bin/firefox
/usr/bin/firefox: symbolic link to `../lib/firefox-4.0/firefox.sh'
/usr/local/bin/firefox: ERROR: cannot open `/usr/local/bin/firefox' (No such file or directory)
/opt/firefox/firefox: ERROR: cannot open `/opt/firefox/firefox' (No such file or directory)

Firefox divertion

/usr/bin/firefox.ubuntu: ERROR: cannot open `/usr/bin/firefox.ubuntu' (No such file or directory)

Sources

medibuntu.list
medibuntu.list.save
mozillateam-firefox-next-maverick.list
mozillateam-firefox-next-maverick.list.save
mozillateam-firefox-stable-maverick.list
mozillateam-firefox-stable-maverick.list.save
opera.list
opera.list.save

[lovinglinux]

But there is! Open up a theme xpi file and that is exactly what you'll find. Almost! Take a theme you can live with and replace icons to your heart's content. Probably the biggest wrinkle you'll find with that idea is that many of the icons will be combined into fairly large images containing dozens of icons. This is, or was, done for performance reasons so that Firefox doesn't have to read thousands of tiny files. It is most important where an icon might flip between states like hover or active. Since themes are packed into xpi files, and in some cases jar files within the xpi file, I don't think this is a big issue any more, but I haven't looked into it. In any case, just work with the setup you have and change icons one for one wherever you find them. Lot of work though.

If you can't transfer images between your Windows and Linux machine then I'm going to guess that modifying a theme is way beyond you. It would actually be possible to create your theme on Windows!

Another approach would be to modify a GTK theme, since Firefox primarily uses GTK icons. Unfortunately there are a few custom icons and these are probably the ones you are most interested in changing

He wasn't referring to a custom theme folder, but the original theme shipped with Firefox. We have already figured out that the default icons are inside omni.jar file in Firefox 4 installation folder.

[lovinglinux]

This is what I got back:

Ubuntu Architecture

Linux jennifer-T3616 2.6.35-28-generic #49-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 1 14:40:58 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux

Ubuntu Version

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=maverick
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.10"

Firefox Packages

firefox install
firefox-globalmenu install

Firefox binaries

/usr/bin/firefox
/usr/bin/firefox: symbolic link to `../lib/firefox-4.0/firefox.sh'
/usr/local/bin/firefox: ERROR: cannot open `/usr/local/bin/firefox' (No such file or directory)
/opt/firefox/firefox: ERROR: cannot open `/opt/firefox/firefox' (No such file or directory)

Firefox divertion

/usr/bin/firefox.ubuntu: ERROR: cannot open `/usr/bin/firefox.ubuntu' (No such file or directory)

Sources

medibuntu.list
medibuntu.list.save
mozillateam-firefox-next-maverick.list
mozillateam-firefox-next-maverick.list.save
mozillateam-firefox-stable-maverick.list
mozillateam-firefox-stable-maverick.list.save
opera.list
opera.list.save

Go to "System >> Administration >> Software Sources", remove the entry containing:

http://ppa.launchpad.net/mozillateam/firefox-next/ubuntu...

Then execute these commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get remove firefox-4.0
sudo apt-get install --reinstall firefox

This will reset your default Firefox to Firefox 4 from the stable ppa.

If you have any problems with bookmarks, passwords or Firefox settings, you might need to copy your profile from ~/.mozilla/firefox-4.0 to ~/.mozilla/firefox

If you want to completely remove Firefox 4 and downgrade to 3.6, then go to "System >> Administration >> Software Sources", remove the lines containing:

http://ppa.launchpad.net/mozillateam/firefox-next/ubuntu...
http://ppa.launchpad.net/mozillateam/firefox-stable/ubuntu...

Then execute these on a terminal:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get remove firefox-4.0
sudo apt-get install --reinstall firefox

If you want to completely reset your Firefox settings, which will DELETE ALL YOUR PASSWORDS, BOOKMARKS, ADD-ONS and other Firefox files, then close Firefox and delete the folder ~/.mozilla/firefox and ~/.mozilla/firefox-4.0

[lithopsian]

He wasn't referring to a custom theme folder, but the original theme shipped with Firefox. We have already figured out that the default icons are inside omni.jar file in Firefox 4 installation folder.

The default icons are almost useless because there are so few of them in Linux. You can replace them all and you'd still see a whole bunch of standard GTK themed icons. Also, even though I've done it on occasion, messing inside omni.jar isn't really a good solution to anything. Of course maybe you get lucky and only want to replace the Firefox custom icons Here is a directory of the various icons in the default theme, hopefully in a very easy to browse format.

Instead take a theme that includes a lot of custom icons (or all of them!) and just replace them as you like. Easy and it will still work with Firefox 4.0.1.

[alexis44]

I did all you said, LovingLinux, and it still has me as 4.0. Either way, maybe it will be an improvement.

[lovinglinux]

I did all you said, LovingLinux, and it still has me as 4.0. Either way, maybe it will be an improvement.

Please post a new report.

[alexis44]

Please post a new report.

It seems to look much the same as the previous report:

Ubuntu Architecture Linux jennifer-T3616 2.6.35-28-generic #49-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 1 14:40:58 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux Ubuntu Version DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.10 DISTRIB_CODENAME=maverick DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.10" Firefox Packages firefox install firefox-globalmenu install Firefox binaries /usr/bin/firefox /usr/bin/firefox: symbolic link to `../lib/firefox-4.0/firefox.sh' /usr/local/bin/firefox: ERROR: cannot open `/usr/local/bin/firefox' (No such file or directory) /opt/firefox/firefox: ERROR: cannot open `/opt/firefox/firefox' (No such file or directory) Firefox divertion /usr/bin/firefox.ubuntu: ERROR: cannot open `/usr/bin/firefox.ubuntu' (No such file or directory) Sources medibuntu.list medibuntu.list.save mozillateam-firefox-next-maverick.list mozillateam-firefox-next-maverick.list.save mozillateam-firefox-stable-maverick.list mozillateam-firefox-stable-maverick.list.save opera.list opera.list.save

[alexis44]

nnifer@jennifer-T3616:~$ sudo echo 'Ubuntu Architecture' > ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
jennifer@jennifer-T3616:~$ echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
jennifer@jennifer-T3616:~$ uname -a >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
jennifer@jennifer-T3616:~$ echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
jennifer@jennifer-T3616:~$ echo 'Ubuntu Version' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txtjennifer@jennifer-T3616:~$ echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
jennifer@jennifer-T3616:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
jennifer@jennifer-T3616:~$ echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
jennifer@jennifer-T3616:~$ echo 'Firefox Packages' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
jennifer@jennifer-T3616:~$ echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
jennifer@jennifer-T3616:~$ dpkg --get-selections | grep 'firefox*' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
jennifer@jennifer-T3616:~$ echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
jennifer@jennifer-T3616:~$ echo 'Firefox binaries' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
jennifer@jennifer-T3616:~$ echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
jennifer@jennifer-T3616:~$ which firefox >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
jennifer@jennifer-T3616:~$ file /usr/bin/firefox >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txtjennifer@jennifer-T3616:~$ file /usr/local/bin/firefox >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
jennifer@jennifer-T3616:~$ file /opt/firefox/firefox >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
jennifer@jennifer-T3616:~$ echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
jennifer@jennifer-T3616:~$ echo 'Firefox divertion' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
jennifer@jennifer-T3616:~$ echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
jennifer@jennifer-T3616:~$ file /usr/bin/firefox.ubuntu >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
jennifer@jennifer-T3616:~$ echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
jennifer@jennifer-T3616:~$ echo 'Sources' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
jennifer@jennifer-T3616:~$ echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
jennifer@jennifer-T3616:~$ ls /etc/apt/sources.list.d >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
jennifer@jennifer-T3616:~$ echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
jennifer@jennifer-T3616:~$ firefox ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
jennifer@jennifer-T3616:~$