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PurposeOfReason
February 27th, 2008, 09:54 PM
One thing I can never get right is firefox. I've tried many stylish themes but nothing get's 100% to where it doesn't look out of place. Does anyone have a certain script or workaround for this?
snake1990
February 27th, 2008, 10:01 PM
I don't know if this helps, but here is my theme, its dark, but everything is visible perfectly.
http://ubuntuforums.org/g/index.php?n=2327
PurposeOfReason
February 27th, 2008, 10:11 PM
Not really, I'm more looking for a global firefox style in stylish. If you look at the attachemnts, it'll make more sense. Thunar looks great, ff, not really.
snake1990
February 27th, 2008, 10:16 PM
Not really, I'm more looking for a global firefox style in stylish. If you look at the attachemnts, it'll make more sense. Thunar looks great, ff, not really.
I see the problem, thats too dark, I will play some firefox settings and see what I can find out.
el_ricardo
February 27th, 2008, 10:19 PM
from what i've heard, firefox 3 will have gtk+ implemented, so you shouldn't have to search around for themes to match the rest of your dektop
PurposeOfReason
February 27th, 2008, 10:21 PM
from what i've heard, firefox 3 will have gtk+ implemented, so you shouldn't have to search around for themes to match the rest of your dektop
I'm using firefox3 b3. Notice the tabs. I'm more talking webpage integration with the stylish extension.
corney91
February 27th, 2008, 10:35 PM
I'm sure you don't want to change browsers just for a theme but I think Opera's MeGuiDdo (http://my.opera.com/community/customize/skins/info/?id=1998) would look great.
PurposeOfReason
February 27th, 2008, 10:51 PM
It is tempting. But as I'm having no luck, does anyone know if and how to change it so that the forms and widgets in firefox differ from those in the rest of the theme? Have black text boxes just looks out of place.
Theme:
http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/MurrinaAngustifolium?content=75698
Onyros
February 27th, 2008, 11:17 PM
I know you asked for Firefox, but Opera has the best dark theme available for a browser there is (Meguiddo). Check it out ;)
Jeez... I must have some kinda reading impairment. Didn't see Corney's mention to the exact same theme (and browser, therefore). Sorry, mate!
Presto123
February 28th, 2008, 12:15 AM
Edit: that didn't work, just follow the link below. It will allow you to click and darken pages as you want.
Someone posted it a while back, and is from this site:
http://lifehacker.com/software/lifehacker-code/invert-web-page-colors-with-the-darken-bookmarklet-259456.php
hhhhhx
February 28th, 2008, 01:45 AM
i like mine, here it is:
http://img32.picoodle.com/img/img32/4/2/27/t_Screenshotm_5e9d4d5.png (http://www.picoodle.com/view.php?img=/4/2/27/f_Screenshotm_5e9d4d5.png&srv=img32)
machoo02
February 28th, 2008, 02:16 AM
i like mine, here it is:
http://img32.picoodle.com/img/img32/4/2/27/t_Screenshotm_5e9d4d5.png (http://www.picoodle.com/view.php?img=/4/2/27/f_Screenshotm_5e9d4d5.png&srv=img32)
Nice....theme details?
~LoKe
February 28th, 2008, 02:20 AM
I think mine looks pretty good...
hhhhhx
February 28th, 2008, 02:24 AM
Nice....theme details?
what would you like to know
gnomelook.org->search for royalty in GTK 2.0, thats all it is. :)
picpak
February 28th, 2008, 02:41 AM
I don't know if this is what you want...but...
http://xubuntu.wordpress.com/2007/07/18/howto-better-integrate-firefox-with-dark-themes/
bonzodog
February 28th, 2008, 05:14 PM
There is a host of themes available in FF for a dark ubuntuforums, using the Stylish extension
I have the black forums skin set myself.
http://xs221.xs.to/xs221/07453/openzen21.png.xs.jpg (http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs221&d=07453&f=openzen21.png)
http://userstyles.org/styles/3992 - Black
http://userstyles.org/styles/3440 - Grey
http://userstyles.org/styles/2455 - Blue
cody50
February 28th, 2008, 05:17 PM
I use the firefox theme "Nasa Nigh Launch" and it blends well with my dark desktop. nothing is hard to read, though, the dark theme I have also does not change too many fonts. i dont remember which theme it is at the time (public computer right now)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4908
marco123
February 28th, 2008, 05:24 PM
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108
I think this is exactly what you are looking for.:)
Cheers, Marco.
SomeGuyDude
February 28th, 2008, 05:47 PM
Opera's MeGuidDo is gorgeous, but there's uh... one small problem: FLASH DOES NOT WORK PROPERLY ON ANY VERSION AVAILABLE. It doesn't work in 9.25, and Myspace/Imageshack/others make 9.5b shut down abruptly.
So you gotta deal with a mildly ugly Firefox until Opera comes around, I suppose.
forrestcupp
February 28th, 2008, 05:49 PM
I'm using firefox3 b3. Notice the tabs. I'm more talking webpage integration with the stylish extension.
I really don't think that's possible. Web pages are programmed to look like they look, and you can't really alter that. It doesn't matter what theme or browser you use, it isn't going to change the code of a web page to match it.
aaaantoine
February 28th, 2008, 05:53 PM
I'd say this is more the fault of web design than of your theme. If a developer wants a text box to be white, they should use CSS to explicitly specify that it is white, not rely on the browser defaults.
Granted, it's an easy mistake to make, especially if you don't use dark themes yourself.
corney91
February 28th, 2008, 06:09 PM
Opera's MeGuidDo is gorgeous, but there's uh... one small problem: FLASH DOES NOT WORK PROPERLY ON ANY VERSION AVAILABLE. It doesn't work in 9.25, and Myspace/Imageshack/others make 9.5b shut down abruptly.
So you gotta deal with a mildly ugly Firefox until Opera comes around, I suppose.
I've found everything, except imageshack (including myspace), works perfectly in 9.5b. Dunno why imageshack closes though:confused:
FranMichaels
February 28th, 2008, 07:43 PM
I really don't think that's possible. Web pages are programmed to look like they look, and you can't really alter that. It doesn't matter what theme or browser you use, it isn't going to change the code of a web page to match it.
Yes you can. Either changes with CSS or something like Greasemonkey. You can completely alter or customize a site.
Look at http://userscripts.org/
However, I do not bother, I just have firefox use the same colors as my theme. A little boring I know, but I prefer it to staring into a "light bulb" while surfing,
Screenshot of firefox minefield, using theme colors, and the scaling zoom.
ice60
February 28th, 2008, 09:08 PM
Opera's MeGuidDo is gorgeous, but there's uh... one small problem: FLASH DOES NOT WORK PROPERLY ON ANY VERSION AVAILABLE. It doesn't work in 9.25, and Myspace/Imageshack/others make 9.5b shut down abruptly.
So you gotta deal with a mildly ugly Firefox until Opera comes around, I suppose.
you can get the opera betas here, it works ok i think. EDIT (lol, i don't know why i didn't try it before i posted and waited till after :| it crashed on Imageshack) -
http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/
i used a fix that comes with this theme to make firefox look better with dark themes, i can't remember what it does now though, but it comes with a firefox fix when you decompress it.
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Mire+v2+themepack?content=51023
ahaslam
February 28th, 2008, 11:16 PM
There's a CSS fix in the Mire theme pack. I've not tried it, though it may be of use...
http://xfce-look.org/content/show.php/Mire+v2+themepack?content=51023
SomeGuyDude
February 28th, 2008, 11:33 PM
you can get the opera betas here, it works ok i think. EDIT (lol, i don't know why i didn't try it before i posted and waited till after :| it crashed on Imageshack) -
http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/
i used a fix that comes with this theme to make firefox look better with dark themes, i can't remember what it does now though, but it comes with a firefox fix when you decompress it.
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Mire+v2+themepack?content=51023
Ah, there we go.
Unfortunately, it's also a memory goliath. With one tab open it's taking 5.4% of my RAM. Swiftweasel with six tabs? Less than 3%.
At least it FUNCTIONs, though. After all, it looks far nicer than Swiftweasel.
ice60
February 28th, 2008, 11:41 PM
There's a CSS fix in the Mire theme pack. I've not tried it, though it may be of use...
http://xfce-look.org/content/show.php/Mire+v2+themepack?content=51023did you even bother to click the link i gave in the post above yours??
lol J/K it's the same thing i said :lolflag:
SomeGuyDude, was that the link you used before for opera? it's updated once a week, or so. maybe if you say something in the comments they'll do something about the memory :confused:
ahaslam
February 28th, 2008, 11:47 PM
To be honest, I didn't even read your post :-\"
SomeGuyDude
February 29th, 2008, 12:54 AM
SomeGuyDude, was that the link you used before for opera? it's updated once a week, or so. maybe if you say something in the comments they'll do something about the memory :confused:
Believe it or not, it's better now. I'm rather confused, myself, but oh well. I don't want to derail this thread with any more Opera yammering, I'll move it to the other one.
Kingsley
February 29th, 2008, 01:27 AM
You should check out BlackX 2.0. It's my favorite black theme for Firefox.
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