Comments on: Firefox 3.6 Breaks Themes and Personas Coexistence

By: Monimonika

Monimonika — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 19:46:21 +0000

Made a new profile and my setup is now working again. Don’t know what happened in my previous one, but there seems to be no conflicts with other add-ons that I had in my old profile.

Can’t wait for Firefox 4 to come out with Panorama (*drool*).

By: Monimonika

Monimonika — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 22:51:26 +0000

My persona setup (see previous comments) has gone belly-up

My Classic Compact theme background stays gray.

Even if I allow a restart and go to “Default Theme”, I get a solid neon color for the background (which definitely does NOT look like the persona I chose).

Uninstalling the modified Persona xpi makes no difference, and the background either stays gray, or I get the neon color (different neon color per persona, apparently) again.

ARRRGGGGHHHH!!

I should probably try out the setup again on a new profile (I have about 40 other add-ons), but will do so when I eventually feel motivated.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 02:47:06 +0000

This work around does not work on Firefox 3.6

By: akjwhd ahwoudh

akjwhd ahwoudh — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 02:23:37 +0000

1. install theme and persona
2. select persona, restart
3. select theme, restart
4. goto about:config
set lightweightThemes.isThemeSelected to true, restart
5. vualya
6. wait 4 fkin mozzi teams repair these superior extensions to right way

tested on 4.0b8/linux

By: Monimonika

Monimonika — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:26:33 +0000

Okay, just a quick note.

Every time I change my persona to something else, my browser asks me to restart. Don’t restart. Instead, go to Themes and reselect your favorite theme (Personas tries to change it to the Default) and the restart message goes away.

By: Monimonika

Monimonika — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:09:13 +0000

Hi again. Well, due to a struggle trying to get YouTube to work again, I ended up updating to Firefox 3.6.

I tried the hack where I change the max version on the Personas 1.4 add-on xpi and install. It did work (Compact Menu theme works with Personas), but it insisted on trying to update to the latest Personas add-on version (1.5.2?). Well, I fixed that problem by going back into the xpi and changing the version from “1.4″ to “1.7″. Re-install and… Voila! No more update notifications!

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:00:30 +0000

It’s not really clutter, everything is useful. If you don’t like the bookmarks there you can turn them off with 2 clicks.
Firefox’s rendering engine and security are far superior to IE which mangles web pages and breaks web standards. From a web developer’s point of view, I hate dealing with IE, but I’ll give Microsoft the recognition that they have fixed A LOT of IE’s problems with IE8.

By: KrAzE

KrAzE — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:43:36 +0000

Seriously this is what kept me from using firefox as my primary browser back when everyone loved it.. I dont want all that clutter.. 2 bars is almost too much for me. Even in IE I have all the buttons small setting and no words except for the title.

Hell, if I could I would turn off this stupid search area I would be a happy man.. despite IE’s many flaws.

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:52:48 +0000

Woo, that IS compact. Haha, nice work.

By: Monimonika

Monimonika — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:39:15 +0000

Hi Nick,

Yeah, I understand. We like things in our own ways. Thank you for responding.

Hope Mozilla will make Personas and Themes compatible again. Until then, I’ll stick with the old Firefox until I’m forced to hack around in 3.6.

Just to show off, here’s a link to what my browser currently looks like:

http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/7726/onmy1280x800screen.png