Better looking Firefox in Ubuntu



Here are some command line steps to improve the looks of web control in Gnome Ubuntu:


sudo su

wget http://users.tkk.fi/~otsaloma/art/firefox-form-widgets.tar.gz

tar -xvzf firefox-form-widgets.tar.gz

cp /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/res/forms.css /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/res/forms.css.bak

cat firefox-form-widgets/res/forms-extra.css | sudo tee --append /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/res/forms.css > /dev/null

cp -r firefox-form-widgets/res/form-widgets /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/res

rm -rf firefox-form-widgets

4 Responses to “Better looking Firefox in Ubuntu”

  1. Abhishek Says:

    What would it do apart from making it “better looking”?

  2. Sushubh Says:

    More information here:
    http://digg.com/linux_unix/Web_controls_are_ugly_in_Firefox

    it just makes the buttons and other web controls look better. :)

  3. vishal rao Says:

    OT post here, but bbforum.in is giving me a page with this:

    “Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/bbforum/public_html/includes/config_vbseo.php on line 210″

  4. Sushubh Says:

    should be fine now… dunno how but that file seemed to be changed on the server. :| hmm…

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