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Question about Firefox menu #954062
05/04/14 01:57 PM
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This has been bothering me for a while. The Firefox menu in the upper left---File, Edit...Bookmarks has always looked bad, black text on dark gray. With updating to Firefox 29, the menu is a bit brighter. My husband's laptop and desktop have a menu that is white text on a bright blue band. I have searched to find a way to make mine look like his with no luck. Does anyone know how to do this?

Re: Question about Firefox menu [Re: Pokey] #954072
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Go to the Firefox addons site at
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/
and click on Themes

or go straight to
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/themes/

When you see a theme you like, add it to Firefox.

One interesting thing this site does is to let you see what the theme looks like on your Firefox before you choose it. Just position your mouse over the picture of the theme, and your menu area will take on the theme in a sort of preview. It may take a couple seconds to register, depending on your computer. If it doesn't, move the mouse away from the theme and move it back and it will usually "take" on the second try.

This one is white on bright blue
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/blue-to-blue/

Here's a darker blue
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/blue-transition/

Re: Question about Firefox menu [Re: Pokey] #954074
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Pokey see if this Mozilla help page lets you do what you want.


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Re: Question about Firefox menu [Re: Pokey] #954082
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Thanks Jenny, lots of choices. I didn't care for the blue used in that theme, so I chose Dark Fox, white on black. Looks good.

Homer, that page doesn't want to load.

Re: Question about Firefox menu [Re: Pokey] #954083
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Re: Question about Firefox menu [Re: Pokey] #954090
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That's a nice one. White on black looks good and a bit of color to jazz it up. I had fun looking at all the themes. The owls and Snoopy were cute.

Re: Question about Firefox menu [Re: Pokey] #954097
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I just put the Snoopy one on my web browser. smile

Thanks for those links, Jenny. wave

Re: Question about Firefox menu [Re: Pokey] #954100
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Originally Posted By: Pokey
Homer, that page doesn't want to load.

Homer's link had an extra https in it.
I removed it, so the link should work now.
https://https:// isn't going to work.

Originally Posted By: Pokey
That's a nice one. White on black looks good and a bit of color to jazz it up.

I like the contrast, overall dark, but with a touch of color to keep it from being a flat black.

Re: Question about Firefox menu [Re: Jenny100] #954303
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That's interesting. I simply C&V the url for that page.


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Re: Question about Firefox menu [Re: Pokey] #954369
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I don't know where the extra http:// came from, Homer, but on occasion I've gotten it too when using "automatic" link makers where you type in the link and the name as prompted. That's one reason I like typing in my links manually using the [ u r l = ... [ / u r l ] instead of using the automatic thing.

Re: Question about Firefox menu [Re: Jenny100] #954373
05/06/14 10:58 AM
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Jenny,

When you click on the link icon in Gameboomers, the space for the link to be pasted already contains http://.
I'm reasonably sure more than one of us hasn't paid attention and removed the extra http:// before hitting OK.
I know I've done it.

Gil.


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Re: Question about Firefox menu [Re: Pokey] #954376
05/06/14 11:13 AM
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That's probably what happened with Homer's link then.
I've noticed it more with other websites, where the procedure for creating a link is more complex than using the [ u r l = ... [ / u r l ]
I've also had it happen at the web archive. Even after removing the extra http:// it can sometimes come back. Very annoying.

Re: Question about Firefox menu [Re: Jenny100] #954379
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Yeah, I'm fairly sure that's what happened to Homer6's link.

The trouble with typing a URL is that the thing is often miles long.
It's so much easier to copy and paste.
So I guess we're stuck with having to pay attention and removing the extra http://.

Gil.


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Re: Question about Firefox menu [Re: Pokey] #954381
05/06/14 11:32 AM
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You can copy and paste the link using the [ u r l = ... procedure too.
The manual part is typing in the [ u r l = ... ] ... [ / u r l ] part, not the link.

Re: Question about Firefox menu [Re: Jenny100] #954433
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Now that Gil mentioned it, I believe both of you are right how the extra http: was added. This isn't the first time I've run into this and it isn't the first time I didn't catch it.


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