FireFox Themes

[Dillinger4]

I had an old computer running FF 0.8 I just got ver 1.0 but i cant figure out how to install the themes. Mozillas faq's blow. Plus where did the theme shots go? The themes are in .jar files but i can't find a theme dir to put them in? Within the .jar file there is an install.rdf anyone know what that is?

[mendhak]

http://texturizer.net/firefox/themes/#install

[CORONA BEER]

whoa ho ho, the install theme button dosen't work anymore.

[Dillinger4]

Yeah i knew you could use the "install now" link to install a theme but i didn't know how to do it manually. Why dosent mozilla explain how to do this? There is nothing in the faq's. Pitty that you have to go to another site for help. O well. Thanks.

[Cander]

Want me to tell you the secret?

[Dillinger4]

Posted by Cander

Want me to tell you the secret?

What that you really have webbed hands and feet?

[Cander]

Yes. You mutate when trying to manually install extensions(a theme is an extension)

Here it goes....

Ready?

.....

goto c:\Document And Settings\username\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\deault.e3f\extensions

create a directory with the name being the guid for the theme as it should show in the install.rdf.

Put a folder called chrome inside that directory

Put the .jar in the chrome directory.

Go back to the extensions directory and edit Extensions.rdf and add this

  </RDF:Description>
  <RDF:Description RDF:about="urn:mozilla:theme:{29852C08-1E91-4889-A6BF-C77F91D6A8F3}"
                   em:version="0.10"
                   em:name="Littlefox"
                   em:description="Littlefox 1.0, designed for optimal screen usage, leaving lots of room 

for browsing"
                   em:creator="Alfred Kayser"
                   em:homepageURL="http://www.geocities.com/alfredkayser/mozilla/themes.htm"
                   em:internalName="littlefox/1.0">
    <em:targetApplication RDF:resource="rdf:#$JZXda3"/>
  </RDF:Description>

editing it to use the info from the install.rdf file.

[Dillinger4]

Awful lot of work.

[Cander]

Yep. So just stick with the simple way of opening an xpi package in firefox and boom. Done.

[Dillinger4]

Thanks for the help Cander. Much appreciated.

[Cander]

Dookie!

I learned too much about Firefox in my quest of learning to write extensions. And yes you are right, the documentation was just suckage and outdated. Not fun.

[mendhak]

Ah yes, the woes of open-source.