I like software that's functional, does the task required. The ability to change the look and feel of the UI is also quite high on my list of priorities. I've possibly been using Firefox/Mozilla/Netscape, whatever, for too long. Trouble is, I'm definitely a look and feel Luddite, due to my age I expect ;)...
I was not looking forward to the Australis interface. -- It was with great trepidation that I clicked "Accept" when the upgrade came through. Having first ensured a complete backup of ~/.mozilla was safely squirrelled away; starting Firefox I fully expected to find a few extensions not compatible; and, visually, rather a mess. I'd been following the thread over on "Mozillazine" for the "Classic Theme Restorer" quite closely, anticipating this would be the first "new" extension to be installed.
So, what actually happened? -- Much to my surprise :O...
Firefox started, spat it's dummy out because of only one extension (Movable Firefox Button), then looked almost the same as it previously had done. Quite amazing, I'd retained my existing prefs.js, userChrome.css and localstore.rdf files. Apart from a couple of minor things in userChrome it was happy with those. Then spent some minutes rearranging a few icons and I was almost a happy bunny! I use the "Vertical Tab Style" extension, which must take most of the credit for the look and feel remaining almost unchanged.
I've subsequently installed the "Classic Toolbar Buttons" extension, (safely ignore the warning "not available for your platform") which has restored some sanity to the icons in terms of image and colour. Deleted localstore.rdf and allowed it to be rebuilt, was it worth it(?), it went from ~90k to 6.7k. I like to tell myself there was a marginal performance improvement, :\ (there wasn't).
Just thought I'd share. -- So any other Luddites out there who're hanging back, go on, give it a go. ;)
I was not looking forward to the Australis interface. -- It was with great trepidation that I clicked "Accept" when the upgrade came through. Having first ensured a complete backup of ~/.mozilla was safely squirrelled away; starting Firefox I fully expected to find a few extensions not compatible; and, visually, rather a mess. I'd been following the thread over on "Mozillazine" for the "Classic Theme Restorer" quite closely, anticipating this would be the first "new" extension to be installed.
So, what actually happened? -- Much to my surprise :O...
Firefox started, spat it's dummy out because of only one extension (Movable Firefox Button), then looked almost the same as it previously had done. Quite amazing, I'd retained my existing prefs.js, userChrome.css and localstore.rdf files. Apart from a couple of minor things in userChrome it was happy with those. Then spent some minutes rearranging a few icons and I was almost a happy bunny! I use the "Vertical Tab Style" extension, which must take most of the credit for the look and feel remaining almost unchanged.
I've subsequently installed the "Classic Toolbar Buttons" extension, (safely ignore the warning "not available for your platform") which has restored some sanity to the icons in terms of image and colour. Deleted localstore.rdf and allowed it to be rebuilt, was it worth it(?), it went from ~90k to 6.7k. I like to tell myself there was a marginal performance improvement, :\ (there wasn't).
Just thought I'd share. -- So any other Luddites out there who're hanging back, go on, give it a go. ;)