best guide to add-ons, themes and tips for Firefox
The Personas add-on for Firefox brings user customization to a whole new level. Now you could mix your favorite Firefox theme, with your favorite Personas background for a unique browsing experience that nobody has ever seen or used before.
Here are my ten favorite skins to use with the Firefox Personas add-on for Firefox:
Very clean and easy on the eyes, two things you can say about the ArzoFox theme for Firefox. I like themes that can make the browser experience better just by touching up a few things. The gradient background, mixed with the colorful icons is a great combination that is really hard to beat.
Like what you see? You can pick up the ArzoFox theme on the Firefox Add-ons web site.
Based on a custom theme that was originally made for the Maxthon browser, SoCool-Calx brings a colorful, yet simple design refresh for Firefox.
I am afraid there isn’t much more of back story about it that I could find, because much of the conversation about it on the Web is all in like Chinese, so enjoy it for what it is – a great looking theme for Firefox. I also found another theme by the same name, (SoCool) however couldn’t get it to install correctly after downloading it via Mozilla’s site.
Go download the SoCool-Calx theme for Firefox, and let me know what you like (or dislike) about it.
If your looking for a mostly 2D, grayscale and compact theme for your Firefox browsing ways – look no further than the Two Dimensions theme. As you can see with the screenshot I included, it is a very slick skin for your Firefox browsing ways that will not disappoint those of you who like to keep things simple.
It would fit nicely, I think, in my list of lightest popular themes for Firefox. Who knows, it might earn its spot soon enough.
Thus far a five-star theme, that is rising in the ranks, you can pick up Two Dimensions and add it to your own Firefox installation at the Firefox Add-ons web site.
I can’t get it out of my head that this modern and compact theme sounds like a great magician. I want to call it the Amazing Stratini! What is its first trick? To turn your Firefox installation into a better looking browser. Actually, there are now two different flavors of the Stratini theme, one is the original (which is more compact) and the other is more padded and spaced out.
Here is a little more about the themes in question from the developer:
What basically started as a small project to simplify and shrink the default Strata Theme has turned into a distinct theme. The icons are designed around the simplified Stop, Reload, Back and Forward icons of Strata… expanding those basic elements across the entire interface.
You can now download either or both! Be sure to let me know which one you decided to use and why.
I really enjoy the themes that can keep it simple, yet give me something new and fresh to look at that doesn’t look like it was ripped from the theme down the street. Both Stratini and Stratini Padded pass those test, so they get two enthusiastic thumbs up from this Firefox fan.
Want to coat your favorite browser in Black Steel? The Black Steel theme for Firefox might not exactly be my cup of tea, however it does have a simplistic dark appeal that I am sure many will love. If your searching for a black theme, it is one of the best looking ones of the bunch too.
The entire theme is very sleek and polished feeling. One feature that it provides that many other dark themes are lacking is that it is still easy to read the menus and other text inside the browser too, without having to slowly inch your face towards your monitor.
You can pick up the Black Steel theme over on the Firefox Add-ons site.
Want to store notes you have taken across the Web in your bookmarks?
Net Notes will allow you to easily store notes on specific sites in your bookmarks. Once you install Net Notes, you can start taking notes about the active tab you have open. The Net Notes sidebar can be toggled (shown and hidden) via Firefox view menu, with a toolbar button, or with a customizable keyboard shortcut. The notes themselves are edited in a simple textbox in your Firefox sidebar. In the options, you can also set it to open your notes in a bottom bar instead.
When you close the sidebar or open a new window, the content of the notes textbox will automatically be saved for you. To help you organize, web sites with notes are automatically tagged with a customizable, comma separated list of tags. Since the notes are stored with your bookmarks, to backup, restore, import and export your notes just backup, restore, import or export your bookmarks.
So if you are searching for a decent note taking add-on for Firefox, Net Notes is well worth checking out over on the Firefox add-ons web site.
As the author puts it, capturing the theme of the 80’s era spirit, Hexxya! for Firefox looks to be a really unique theme that is very easy on the eyes.
I really enjoy the simple icons and the softer use of colors in this theme for Firefox. It all just works together very well.
Here is more about the theme from the developer:
You might notice that random arrangements of icons will not work with this theme. You will need to play around in the Customize Toolbar settings to get the icons to fit together in a manner that works, or just follow the order used in the sample screen shots for the best results. The large version has more space between the icons and is more flexible to different arrangements.
If the style of this theme looks familiar, the author of the theme also brought Slickerfox into the world. The two don’t look exactly the same, but if you like one – I am willing to bet you will like the other.
Pick up the Hexxya! theme on the Firefox Add-ons web site.
Ready to make your Firefox browser a little more Wii-like? WiiFox, a new theme for Firefox, is based on the highly popular video game system the Nintendo Wii. It doesn’t really rip anything off directly, it just takes inspiration really from the Wii’s own internet browser and interface.
If you like the theme, be sure to let the developer know. Since it is right now an “experimental” theme, I am sure feedback would be appreciated in any way you can give it. Savaden, the theme’s creator, is becoming a favorite of mine to watch – as he also brough us the Mushroom Kingdom Firefox theme too. You can pick up the WiiFox theme on the Firefox Add-ons site.
Featured in the lightest popular theme collection I did a few months back, the Elementary Theme for Firefox has grown on me. Perhaps I like it because it is nice and simple?
The Elementary Theme is the official Firefox theme for the Elementary project. Here is a little more about that project from the official web site:
The elementary project was started in January of 2008. It takes it roots from the Macesque icon set developed by Daniel Fore. In response to the ever popular oxygen and appeal projects for KDE, Fore sought to create something to unify the GTK desktop. Shortly after the 1.0 release of elementary icons, the project began to grow exponentially to incorporate themes for several window managers, a GTK 2 theme, a Firefox 2 theme, and a uSplash theme.
I am all for making things simpler, cleaner and clearer. You can pick up the Elementary Theme for yourself on the Firefox Add-ons site.
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Mitch Keeler is nothing more than your average Joe trying to leave his mark on the world though both his professional work and his online projects, articles, podcasts and more.
