~~~~~~~~~firefox skins~~~~~~~~~

how?

Published on January 18, 2005 By MadPyro In WinCustomize Talk

hey how wouldn i make firefox skins? you use any programs for it? or just pure coding?

i love firefox and i would like to contribute to it

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MadPyro

on Jan 18, 2005

so plz tell me and help me

WickedP

on Jan 18, 2005

MadPyro,

it's a lot about coding. But, you don't have to start from scratch. If you search your harddrive, you will find a file called classic.jar. This is the default FF theme in a renamed zip file. You can take the file, make a copy of it in a working folder on your harddrive, and rename the copy to classic.zip. Now, unzip that file and it will create the directory structure that is required. You can then look thru those folders and see the image files required.

Now, before you try to create a new a new jar file from the files you modify, there are a couple of file you will have to create. They are: the install.rdf and contents.rdf. These files tell FF the details about your skin. Additionally, you'll need to obtain a GUID for your skin...you can get this from the mozilla IRC server.

Here's some helpful links...

Link to install.rdf and contents.rdf instructions: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/extensions/packaging/themes.html

Link to mozilla GUID Generation information:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Install.rdf

Additionally, you may want to download a couple of the themes that are already out there, and unzip the .jar file to look at the structure other developers have used.

Good luck.

Wicked.

Alternate Setting

on Jan 18, 2005

There are a few ways to go. This is probably as good a point as any:-

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=198911

MadPyro

on Jan 18, 2005

sweet thanks guys.. i will work on it and tell u how it turns out

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