Asa Dotzler: Firefox and more

I pointed you to it for the pic ;-)

/me gets ready to be adoted.

that site went up the day the patch landed. and im glad to be a contributor (under my screen name ColdFusion65).

I notice a lack of copyright information on that picture.

- Chris

I don't suppose there's an extension that lets you use native windows theming (Or themeing via windowblinds/etc) for the menus, like the rest of the widgets in firefox can?

My company uses XP with the Classic Theme, making Firefox 1.5 look "unnatural" in the menus, etc.

Then again, Office XP also ignores the Classic styles, so that makes e-mail, word processor, and the web browser all with blue hover states on the menus. Majority rules?

here's a little css hack, i used to loose the un-buetifulness, of course it keeps the blue, but makes it more rounded and pretty and sexy and lovely, try it out.

/* Change style of menu */
menubar > menu[_moz-menuactive="true"],
menupopup > menu[_moz-menuactive="true"],
popup > menu[_moz-menuactive="true"],
menuitem[_moz-menuactive="true"] {
color: #FFFFFF !important;
border: #FFFFFF 1px solid !important;
-moz-border-radius-topleft: 4px !important;
-moz-border-radius-topright: 4px !important;
-moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 4px !important;
-moz-border-radius-bottomright: 4px !important;
-moz-border-corner-fit: scale !important;

}

Oh, so that's why Chase was so eager to check it in. It would be cool if someone would check out the trunk patch, though, I honestly didn't expect it to remain in this long. The only reason I'm not more vocal about it is because James said it would make tonnes of conflicts appear in his tree.

Also, isn't there a more updated version of that? Or is it just for the picture?

Uh.. What's the difference with the Classic Menus for Winstripe extension that has been around since the beta?

https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=1208&application=firefox

Old news if you ask me.

That one you're linking to is based on this one. Only the updateURL and contributor list has been changes I think.

Is there an extension that gets rid of the damn groove between the title bar and menu?

Original thread of the pic:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=1594685#1594685
and the Greasemonkey script
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=1627270#1627270
And yes, we still love you :)

The classic menus for winstripe is an extension I created that uses the original css file that the above extension uses. My extension is just that though no auto detect which OS and ability to import own css files...no thrills, just classic menus and no options. Plus it is on AMO(C) for the users whilest the above extension isn't easily avaiable to the public.

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Ya I wish I could figure out how to get rid of the damn separator between the title and menu bar also.

I use the Classic theme on Windows XP, and when I first loaded up Fx1.5 my first thought was "whoa, it's picked up WinGTK+ by accident! Looks like ass!". A Mozilla contributor who shall remain nameless pointed me towards the extension and rather cryptically said to 'blame Asa for screwing over everyone not on Luna'. Not sure what that was about, but anyway...

That's strange,
I run XP with classic look both at work and at home, the menus were messed up at work only!
The extension took care of fixing them, but at home the menues look fine with or without the extension!

I ave no idea why or how!

> Ya I wish I could figure out how to get rid of the damn separator between the title and menu bar also.

I was playing about with some themes over this, and some of them removed the groove (although they all had drawbacks that meant I couldn't stick with them), so it's doable.

I'm not going to be able to use FF1.5 on an ongoing basis until it looks like a Windows application and not some thrown-together hobbiest kit...

Removing the "groove" is pretty easily done; it's just a border on the toolbox element, and I thought Classic Menus did it anyway. It should have been backed out by mconnor, so dunno why people are still experiencing it. Not my fault in the first place, mind.

- Chris

Daniel: There was an attempt fairly late in the 1.5 cycle to get native-themed menus working on Windows (after the Luna theme was checked in), but it caused a lot of problems with things like (IIRC) bookmarks and the themes API, and ended up getting backed out. I wouldn't be surprised to see it get resolved on the road to 2.0, though.