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Lolifox Theme Just Makes Me Angry at the World

Posted: April 8, 2009 | Filed Under Themes

lolifox-theme Now I am not one to usually fight the Firefox community, but this just kind of take the cake for being totally absurd.  How in the heck does the Lolifox by ChaosRing Theme have these kind of download numbers?

  • 5,982 weekly downloads
  • 6,327 total downloads

Just look at it!  All they did was take the CrystalFox Modern theme and put a creepy picture of a fox-child-thing on it and make the background bright green. 

This ugly theme does bring up one good point, which is – what is Mozilla’s policy when somebody openly steals another person’s theme or design?

Now sure, there might be some other not-so-great looking themes out there however they have their audiences, so you have to respect that.  On the other hand though, the Lolifox theme is the worst theme I have seen in a very long time.

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  • Frostbite
    Sounds like somebody is on the rag.
  • manni
    I've found anime fans to be pretty unpredictable.. I think they'd go for it
  • Amanda
    It IS quite easy to steal and manipulate another theme, especially since all of the theme components are downloaded onto your computer when you download the theme.

    I don't think that anyone would give permission to use and manipulate their theme like this one though. It's an insult. Quite the lack of originality as well. It would have been easier to pass around some code and a picture to paste in userChrome.
  • Leo
    People with bad taste on Firefox themes? Oh, shocking.

    It's funny because I usually don't like the themes you recommend, Mitch.

    (I don't like this either, by the way)
  • Leo
    Mitch, I know where you're going with that. Look, I don't like Firefox themes in general because they tend to look cartoonish or old, or ugly or poorly designed. For example, I used iFox for quite some time but the false Mac feel didn't cut it for me. Maybe iSafari --I don't remember the name well-- but again, no real Mac feel.

    When Firefox 3 came I used that theme in Vista, which I liked, but not entirely. So I added the Glasser extension, some userscripts to make the tabbar black and the userscript to make my bookmarks bar match the design of Vista (something the guys at Mozilla said they had planned for Firefox 3 but didn't actually implemented). I took out all the extra buttons and fields that I don't use. Like de search field. I've always used google from the address bar. You just type "google +". Why the search field? I don't have that thing.

    So, what I'm trying to say is that I like a theme that doesn't get in my way and blends correctly with the OS. It's not perfect, but the setup I have now brings me closer to that.

    I just don't think there's really awesome themes by themselves.

    Sorry if I sounded like a jerk all this time. :)
  • Leo, drop me an e-mail at mitch@mitchkeeler.com and I would love to feature your list of the best themes out there. Would love to see what you consider the best!
  • rainmaker
    In this case justice is served with the offense.
    Anyone who downloads this rip-off receives
    a fitting punishment by simply using it.
  • Amanda
    exactly.
  • lol, good point!
  • Micke
    either somebody is cheating or there are some real tasteless people out there.
  • Kevin
    How do you know whether the author did or did not ask for permission?
    And what if the CrystalFox Modern theme is GPL or otherwise open-source?
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