Making a mozilla firefox homepage update#
Making a mozilla firefox homepage software#
Making a mozilla firefox homepage code#
Making a mozilla firefox homepage Pc#
Making a mozilla firefox homepage zip#

Well, I hope this is the last help I’ll ever need. Since I have only got it on my hard drive. And one thing I’m not really aware of yet is if the theme’s supposed to be saved in some exact place. Even though the theme I changed was Ipox. The theme’s window sais it’s using mine, but all the buttons and stuff is firefox default. So now when the theme was finally installed and I tried to use it, the theme I have is the same as the Firefox default theme. It’s quite embarrassing how things just tend to go wrong for me. What I did wrong(I think) was that I changed the firefox UUID instead of my own themes. I have gotten further now and my theme actually gets installed. I can try to answer questions if posted below too. More details can be found at Mozilla’s site or by asking in Mozilla’s forums. Give it a whirl and I’d love to see what you come up with. There are many pieces to edit and things to try out.

Next, open up Firefox and drag your theme to the themes window to install.

Do not include the joeBob theme folder though as it’s not needed. If you have a compression utility that actually creates jar files, than that works do.

Making a mozilla firefox homepage zip#

When you are ready to test, go back out to the first level of your joeBob theme folder, the one that includes the install.rdf file and select all the files, in my case 9 files, and zip them all up.

Making a mozilla firefox homepage code#

Throw in more CSS code, get rid of code you don’t like.I skipped over all the xml files as I’m not sure what they do. You can edit height, width, background colors, positions and all that jazz.

There is some Mozilla specific code that starts with -moz but don’t be afraid of it. Open them in your favorite CSS editing app and go to town.

All configuration files are actually CSS files.

Firefox then uses CSS to create the effects you see in the browser. Most png files are png 32 as that creates perfect transparent edges.The main Firefox buttons are actually one big file that contains all the buttons, their rollover, pressed and disabled states too. You can open them in Fireworks, Photoshop or your favorite graphics editor, design over them them, and save them back out as the same name.

Now all you have to do is start editing stuff.

Basically, it tells Firefox where to find the files associated with your theme. Example: urn:mozilla:skin: joeBob:browser.

Making a mozilla firefox homepage update#

Open it in a text editor and update it with your information.

The next file to update is the contents.rdf file.

Just go to and it’ll create one for you when the page loads. If it’s not changed, it’ll endup replacing someone elses theme on install.

You will need to get your own em:id, also known as your theme’s UUID.

If anything, you may need to modify the MinVersion and maxVersion numbers as they relate to versions of Firefox that this theme works with. You’ll need to add your own version number, theme name, description, creator and homepage information.Don’t Change the area that is inside the em:targetApplicaton as this is the coded needed for Firefox. When you open the joeBob folder, you’ll see some files and some folders.

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If your software can un-jar files, you don’t have to rename it to a zip. zip, un-zip it and you should now have a joeBob folder on your hard drive. Actually, a Firefox theme is just a bunch of compressed files.

Change the file name from theme.jar to joeBob.zip.

To do this, right click and save link as in Firefox, or use a browser like Safari or IE that doesn’t know what to do with a.

Now that we have a starting spot, download the theme to your computer.

It’s just nice to know you have permission so that someone doesn’t accuse you of stealing their theme. Trust me, I found out the hard way.Get permission from the theme creator before you start playing with their theme.

Making a mozilla firefox homepage Pc#

You’ll need a good starting point and I think it’s easier to edit other themes than start with the default ones as the PC theme doesn’t have Mac pieces and the Mac one doesn’t play will with a PC.

Find a theme that seems to be quite completed and works on Mac and PC.

🙂įor this tutorial, our theme will be called joeBob and the instructions work for Firefox 1.x for sure. Firefox is Open Source, Themes are often MPL/GPL but icons and pictures belong to their respective authors! Play nice people. In no time at all, you could get a basic theme created for Firefox.īefore submitting a theme to Mozilla or making public, please contact the author in order to ask them if their elements are free of rights. It’s not intended to be overly detailed as it’s not really that hard. This is a basic ‘how to’ tutorial for creating a Firefox theme. Check out the iPod Remix post for all the details. I’m starting a whole new set of theme tutorials.