Firefox Skins?

Where are they

Published on January 9, 2005 By Sleeping Dragon In WinCustomize Talk

Brad put out a feeler question about what new categories we would like to have here at WC. One of the biggest requests was that we get a section for FireFox skins. Apparently Deviant Art is overflowing with them, and I know that Brad took a look at DA and agreed we should have one.

Where are the skins? We have a category that has remained at "0" skins since the day it was opened. Do those skins take longer to make than others, or are people just going to DA out of habit and selection, or is there really not a need?

Just curious, after so many people requested it, why there are not skins. Is anyone working on one?

Comments (Page 3)

TN Brat!

on Jan 18, 2005

Wicked, thanks I love, it! I can't ever get too many Firefox skins, and was sad to see that only one has made it here after all the requests. Though I just happen to have loads of them I haven't even used yet so I can wait to get more...

I to, am trying to learn to skin Firefox,(thanks to David Lanham for allowing the port of Somatic to Firefox) and find that it's much like everyone else says, there are just loads of things to change...and huge amount of images...so wish me luck, please.

Oh, and I would honestly not object one bit to getting Thunderbird skins on here too! There aren't enough of them either, but I think that's only a matter of time, because once someone tries it they get hooked...or at least I did...heck I tried it because it had a built in Spell Checker, but the junk mail controls are really great too.

You guys may want to actualy consider changing the catagory from Firefox to Mozilla, and then have sub-catagories for both Thunderbird and Firefox...Just a thought, but it may help fill the gallery up a little...

Weaksid

on Jan 18, 2005

I would be almost done with mine but several things have slowed me down. Everything seems to be happening at once, but I guess that's life. I may work on it a little at school today. All I got to say is it's FREEZING!!!!

I'm in Altoona, PA if you wonder where I am.

Weaksid

on Jan 22, 2005

WickedP,

Hey, I need a little nudge on this. I've started it and It's getting there. I however am stuck on trying to change the background color or add a image to the whole browser? I disabled windowsblinds because it seems to take over it. I took apart your skin and you used the layout alot of people seem to be using. I'm using the classic style for my first on then go from there. But which .css file deals with the color for the browser? I can't seem to find the right one or I did look at it and didn't look close enough.

horiz0n

on Jan 22, 2005

you know it's funny how often i thought "why isn't this skin working" but then i started noticing little fine print of things like "you must have windowblinds for this to be fully skinned" dunno if thats just the way some people made theirs or not.

Weaksid

on Jan 24, 2005

Just wanted to say that I'm getting there. I finally made it past that hump with the background. I would of figured it out sooner but I haven't had much time to sit down and work on it. Here is a screenshot of what it looks like so far. It has work left to be done to it. I'm not sure how much I can get done though before the end of this month. I'm going to at least try to have it done.

Edit:

I forgot to add that the background is just a temp for trial. I'm going to be making changes to it but it will looks something around that.

horiz0n

on Jan 24, 2005

go go go hurry lol

joeKnowledge

on Jan 24, 2005

Guys this is my honest opinion. I do not think Firefox has to be totally skinned. Having the icons skinned is enough in my opinion. The OS takes care of the rest. If you have windowblinds then its even better.

this is what I get so far from limited playing around with the thing, does anybody see something different?

WickedP

on Jan 24, 2005

Joe,

You've got it right...the only thing I'm doing in addition to the toolbar icons, are the buttons, radio buttons, and checkboxes. I also tweak the tabbar to match the color schemes.

Wicked.

CerebroJD

on Jan 24, 2005

I dont think it needs to be totally skinned either. Heck, I dont WANT it totally skinned....I'd prefer that WB handle the tabs and stuff.

Weaksid

on Jan 24, 2005

Well, this is mine without windowblinds loaded. It's suppose to go with my ObjectDock skin "Alien Chrome". I still got several icons left to make. I'm trying to be creative on some so they don't match other people's icons and it goes with the alien theme. It's getting closer though.

WickedP

on Jan 24, 2005

Weaksid,

Looking good! I really like th color on the tabs!

Wicked.

Tiggz

on Jan 24, 2005

the only thing I'm doing in addition to the toolbar icons, are the buttons, radio buttons, and checkboxes

I am doing a Firefox skin to go with a wb skin I am working on...wb seems to skin the buttons, radio buttons and checkboxes?

I am basically skinning any icons I can find, that little red close button, a couple of mouseover colours which were out of place, dropdown menu arrows - that type of thing. The skin is basically an extension of the wb skin and intended to be used in conjunction with it so it seems pointless to skin elements that the wb will.

Weaksid

on Jan 25, 2005

Well, I finished Version one of my skin. I uploaded it and now to see if it makes it.

horiz0n

on Jan 25, 2005

I tried skinning it for about a week, finding too many of the same things it seemed, and other things, like the background, top back, not the bottom back, or sub window back....... I couldn't find at all. And after a bit I looked at it, said this isn't anything special/original anyway, and trashed it.

I'll just wait till I can get some help from someone I guess.

But I don't use window blinds so I'd mucho prefer to have the browser skinned, but all in all, as me not using WB is a minority around here...maybe make 2 versions of a skin when it's called for, one that works with WB one that runs without?

Weaksid

on Jan 25, 2005

What I ended up doing is messing with the stylesheets till I figured out what did what. Like I used a bright orange color to find what tags went with what area of the browser. From there, I just kept adding and I got it to a likable skin. I will make improvements on and off depending on the time I have. Like I want to change the throbber, change more of the icons, try to skin the bottom of the browser (had alot of problems here), and some other stuff I find. I forget how long I've been working on mine. I know it's been many hours to get where I am now. But since I know what some of the things are, when I get this fully done to where I can't do anymore to it, then I shouldn't have problems with designing another one.

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