Truth K Theme Improvement for Firefox 2.0 (windows xp)

Hello everybody!

This is my first post and also my first very small contribution to the aqua-soft community, hope it's useful for some of you!

I've been using Truth K Theme for Firefox 2 for quite sometime, but that white background on tabs and bookmarks toolbar always bothered me a lot. So after some googling I came up with a way to make it all brushed like safari, and I think it's pretty cool. It fits perfectly with the Brushed 3.5 visual style but should look good no matter what VS or WB skin you're using.

I don't know how familiar you are with userChrome tunning in Firefox, so I'll just do it step by step.

First off, open a blank text file in Notepad, let's say, and paste this text into it:

/* Change color of active tab */

tab{ -moz-appearance: none !important; } tab[selected=true] {

color: black !important; }

/* Change color of normal tabs */

tab:not([selected=true]) {

background-color: transparent !important;

color: black !important;

}

/* Change the background of the tabbrowser */

.tabbrowser-tabs {

background-color: none !important;

}

/* Change the background of all other toolbars */

menubar, toolbox, toolbar {

}

Now save it as "userChrome.css" in the following path:

C:Documents and Settings{your user}Application DataMozillaFirefoxProfiles{your profile}chrome

Also save both attached images in this folder. Restart Firefox and you should have a new brushed Safari look in your Firefox

Hope you like it and feel free to post any feedback!

PS: just a quick note, if you change your firefox theme to other than Truth K, don't forget to rename userChrome.css to something like userChrome_.css, otherwise it will continue to apply these changes and it will look pretty weird. When you switch back to Truth, then you rename it to userChrome.css again ;-)

#455718

Thank you so much, this thing works really well. :cool:

#455760

Hey thanks man because of that I was reluctant to use that theme but now it's all good thanks to u

#456408

very nice indeed, works a treat. This is what was stopping me changing from FF1.5.

#456517

No problem guys! I'm so glad it worked for you, because that white thing was annoying me for some time too... now we all can live happy ever after using truth k LoL

#456524

....one thing tho.. Im losing the close tab (x) button on the tabs. The active tab one stays but the non focused ones disappear.... and the focused tab disappears when you point over it. Is this a fault with the FF2 skin, the above mod or with Tab mix plus? Any help gratefully received Ta

#457214

I'm almost 100% sure it has something to do with Tab Mix Plus or some other extension... I don't even mention the close button on the userchrome file I posted, the only thing it does is setting a background image for the toolbars and the tabbrowser.

#457421

Looks good. Thanks!

Gogsythreat, I have a similar problem (I think it a issue that Truth-K has); 1.5 didn't have this problem.

#457434

I've been using Truth K Theme for Firefox 2 for quite sometime, but that white background on tabs and bookmarks toolbar always bothered me a lot. So after some googling I came up with a way to make it all brushed like safari, and I think it's pretty cool. It fits perfectly with the Brushed 3.5 visual style but should look good no matter what VS or WB skin you're using.

Thanks .. i feel the same lol .. your contribution is really helpful and clear .. thanks a lot man

#458380

any chance you could do some background images for cerebro? so we could just change the safari bg into cerebro and use the css you put...:)thanks

#459285

Here they are, i made them some time ago.

#459334

thanks for this!

#459381

You're welcome.

#459392

is there a way to exclude the menubar from all this?

#461478

Ive just started to use a Leopard style. In the same vane as above. This will skin your active Leopard tab.

Use this Firefox 2 Theme - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3137

Use this Visual Style - http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/58555046/

In your userchrome.css file, use the same text as noted above, it is as follows (we only need the active tab this time) :-

/* Change color of active tab */

tab{ -moz-appearance: none !important; } tab[selected=true] {

color: black !important; }

Download this image and rename it - bg_active_leopard.png

http://img118.imageshack.us/img118/3851/bg...eleopardvh3.png

place it in the same folder as the userchrome.css file. Worthwhile making a folder and keeping copies of the originals

It should look like this ---

#461483

I need a code that will JUST do the bookmarks toolbar. PLEASE!

#462907

This isn't working for me , I don't have the location listed where to put userChrome.css, so i had to put it in, C>program files>mozilla firefox>chrome (is that a problem?) but it isn't working...any ideas?

#464644

Nope buddy, you need to put it in the following path:-

C:Documents and Settings{your user}Application DataMozillaFirefoxProfiles{your profile}chrome

#464647

Nope buddy, you need to put it in the following path:-
C:Documents and Settings{your user}Application DataMozillaFirefoxProfiles{your profile}chrome

Any idea why i don't have that path? Should i just create it , would that work?

#467264

At what point exactly does that path break down? Creating it won't work...

Are you on Vista?

-NC

#467281

No, im using Windows XP SP2...The path breaks down after my user, there is no Aplication Data folder...

#467344

No, im using Windows XP SP2...The path breaks down after my user, there is no Aplication Data folder...

The folder is hidden...either enable the display of hidden files and folders in "Folder Options" or navigate to the Application Data folder using the address bar.

-NC

#467351

Thats brilliant thanks NC!

#467352

hi, i'm finally getting round to moving from firefox 1.5 to 2 and trying to recreate the safari like mod i had in 1.5 using a modded safire theme, a whole host of extensions, userchrome tweaks etc. using the truth-k theme.

i've managed to get the tabs looking brushed and pretty much right and to get the searchbar mod done, but i can't seem to find a way to get the bookmarks pane to take a brushed background rather than the light one native to the theme.

does anyone have any ideas as to how this can be made to appear brushed?

also, i haven't been able to work out how to get fission to use an image rather than a flat colour for the progress bar with this theme - can anyone help me out with that?

thanks.

quite

edit - i've since worked out how to make all these changes and have modded a version of truth-k which is natively fully brushed (i've asked bulin if i can post).

#476665