Subscribe Feed (RSS)When you install Firefox on your Windows 7 RTM installation, you’ll find that it isn’t exactly optimised for Windows 7′s Aero interface.
Firefox 3.7 will support Windows 7′s jumplists, and the theme will include more ‘glass’, but if you want to get the nice glassy look that 3.7 will sport right away without having to wait, you can get it right now on Firefox 3.5!
Firefox 3.7 New Theme
And we can get pretty much the exact same theme easily using the extensions I’m going to show you. Here’s the final result:
Firefox 3.5 modded
So let’s get to work!
Strata40 by SpewBoy
Strata40 is almost a complete clone of the new Strata (as in – the name of the default Firefox theme) for Firefox 3.7. It doesn’t include the glass component though, so it sort of looks like it would if you were using Windows Aero Basic.
IMPORTANT: If you don’t do this, the theme won’t look right. Go to the View menu and then go to Toolbars, and then click on Customize. You need to switch a couple things around. Move the stop button from its current position to directly after the address bar, and then put the reload button right after where you just put the stop button.
In this way they’ll combine, so that when a page is loading, it shows a red stop button that you can click to stop the page from loading, but when the page isn’t loading, then it turns into a refresh button. Saves a ton of space, and looks great at the same time.
StrataGlass by SpewBoy
StrataGlass adds all the aero effects you could want to Strata40! It is a great add-on, and is a must have for achieving that 3.7 look. Don`t use StrataGlass with any other theme other than Strata40 because it will just give you an error.
Fission by zeniko
Fission adds the 2px little orange loading bar that runs just below the address bar in 3.7 to Firefox 3.5. It`s really quite a beautiful little loading bar, and it gives you a neat thing to watch while your pages are loading.
Hide Menubar by yuoo2k
Hide Menubar does exactly what it`s called, and it does a pretty good job of it too! It works like the way that the new menubar works in Internet Explorer 8: press alt, and then it shows up.
Tabs On Top UserStyle by SpewBoy
This actually isn`t an addon – it`s an UserStyle from userstyles.org. It works with the addon called Stylish (you`ll need to install Stylish first for it to work). I tried it in Greasemonkey and it didn`t work. This adds a bit of a Chrome twang to the whole theme, and it`s easily togglable through the little Stylish logo on the statusbar, so you can switch between tabs on top and tabs underneath as much as you want. A great little addition to the whole pack of plugins I`ve already provided.
Anyways, I hope that I`ve helped you, and I think that you`ll greatly enjoy your modded Firefox!
