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Flofox Revisited - Flock Theme for Firefox

Posted in Cool, Geeky, Tech by Dan at 4:37 am

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Ah, Flock. Haven’t heard about these guys lately. Well they browser (which I feel is a driving wedge in Mozilla’s grab on the throne) entered public beta (Whatever!). Yes, flock has a few bugs and it is not truly 100% compatable with FireFox extensions (Did I mention Flock is a driving wedge?). But that skin is ohhhhhhh so sweet! Now you can have the best of both worlds, the Flock look and feel with the power of FireFox! Not too shabby if you ask me. Now if we could only tame the memory usage :-)

This skin is updated from the old skin which had some bugs. So, now you can run a nearly bug free version of FloFox.

All you need to do is just click this link for the theme just click this UPDATED link for the theme version 0.2and drag the downloaded file to your themes window (after you unzip it of course). Good for any platform.

40 Comments, Comment or Trackback

  1. Ronald Poi

    I hated the tab icon when images were open in new tabs. Those icons were the same width the image you was viewing. Huge tabs used to appear. Let’s see if this fix that…

    Jun 14th, 2006

  2. Ronald Poi

    Yup. It works good now. Thanks! =)

    Jun 14th, 2006

  3. Floydpink

    The primary icons (back, next, etc) still do not behave as small icons for me. Enabling small icons makes all other on my menu bar small, but not the primary ones.

    Also, there is no dropdown history for the back and forward buttons for me.

    No thanks.

    Jun 14th, 2006

  4. Ronald Poi

    Didn’t know about the small icons thing… but there is a dropdown for back and forth buttons, you just need to click and hold the button, the menu appears in 2 seconds or less…

    Jun 15th, 2006

  5. miksago

    heya all,
    just thought i’d let you know, the theme kinda breaks in firefox when you have the new tabbutton enabled via tabmix plus.

    Cheers

    Jun 19th, 2006

  6. Malcolm

    mmm…the link seems broken atm :-(

    Jun 25th, 2006

  7. keefus

    any news of a port of the latest theme from Flock 0.7?

    Jul 11th, 2006

  8. JM UK

    My home page button stays as the whereas the one in the screenshot is themed

    Jul 27th, 2006

  9. ShareBird

    Update:

    http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=2376951#2376951

    Cheers

    Jul 28th, 2006

  10. corsaria

    Nice skin! Thanks! :-)

    Aug 13th, 2006

  11. Thilak

    This theme surely rocks !!

    Sep 9th, 2006

  12. Kaileena Suza

    Great Skin! i love it i been using it from 3 days now its works cool…

    Sep 12th, 2006

  13. Pearce Engel

    Aha! This is an awesome theme! Great work!

    Sep 25th, 2006

  14. Big Fan

    This is the best theme I have ever used for Firefox. You should make it available on the Firefox Add-Ons page.

    Oct 21st, 2006

  15. Camelot

    Era mi tema por defecto para Firefox 1.5.0.x, pero había que aplicar algunos cambios en el user.chrome para que sea 100% igual a Flock…

    Lamentablemente no esta disponible para Firefox 2.0
    ¿Alguien esta trabajando en una actualización?

    Saludos.

    Oct 25th, 2006

  16. FFFan

    Thanks. It is a great job. Are you going to update this theme?

    Oct 26th, 2006

  17. kazu

    I hope you gonna update this nice theme for Fx2…

    Oct 28th, 2006

  18. Arroco

    Please update to Fx 2.I’m missing the theme.

    Nov 1st, 2006

  19. ShareBird

    I hope I will be able to work on an update for Firefox 2.0 soon. I’m at this moment very, very busy… I’m working also on a home page for this theme, I’m hoping this will help to avoid the issues I had with this theme on the past…

    Nov 2nd, 2006

  20. MataRatas

    Great job!, I’ll be waiting for the update. I don’t like the flock browser, but the theme is the best one.

    Nov 2nd, 2006

  21. sede

    I hope it will be soon updated, because it’s the best theme ever!

    Nov 9th, 2006

  22. RoQ

    Hi, great theme!, i love it, i hope you updte it to work with Firefox 2

    Nov 23rd, 2006

  23. Osuns

    Simply love it, but please update it to work with Firefox.

    Nov 24th, 2006

  24. Daneel

    Come on mate. Update the theme.

    I’m having to use Flock (which is based on Firefox 1.5 and therefore doesn’t have the new features) instead of Firefox 2.0 just because i like the look so much.

    Dec 25th, 2006

  25. Flofox-fan

    The creator of the theme has stated that he’s on vacation at the moment, but as soon as he gets back at the end of January… he will begin working on the updated Flofox theme.

    Jan 4th, 2007

  26. Abe

    Please update to Firefox 2

    Jan 18th, 2007

  27. mchasard

    Yes it will be a real good thing to update this flock theme for firefox 2.0 , we all are waiting …

    Please …

    thanks in advance …

    Jan 18th, 2007

  28. Phrost

    I really hope this theme is updated soon. I’ve recently switched over from Opera and love the Firefox browser, and the Flock GUI. Wish I could have the best of both worlds.

    Feb 2nd, 2007

  29. Bthechange

    If you really want to use it for Firefox 2
    1) download the file
    2) rename the JAR file to .ZIP
    3) open up “install.rdf” in a text editor
    4) Change this line:
    1.8
    to something like:
    2.0.0.1
    5) re-zip the folder contents (not the main folder)
    6) rename the .ZIP to .JAR
    7) Done

    It worked for me.

    Feb 6th, 2007

  30. Bthechange

    Huh, step 4 was supposed to have the “em:maxVersion” comments.

    Feb 6th, 2007

  31. Phrost

    Thanks buddy.

    Feb 7th, 2007

  32. Saskia

    Thanks Bthechange !!!!

    Mar 2nd, 2007

  33. alabanco

    Guys help me with this theme. I need the following

    How to:

    1) add additional icons that are hided in this theme (my news, my blog, favourites manager )

    2) add Flickr menu (feature that is availbale in flock)

    Mar 11th, 2007

  34. mchasard

    i just tried to do follow your step to use flofox skin with firefox 2.0.0.2 , so now i don’t have any message concerning the version validity but it doesn’t appear in the new theme …strange so it seems that the installation falls down …
    is there a new way to make it work please ?

    thanks in advance …

    Mar 20th, 2007

  35. john

    So… where is the theme? The links don’t work

    Mar 22nd, 2007

  36. John

    Guess this is yet another dead or unmonitored blog hmmm.

    Mar 30th, 2007

  37. egon

    Yup, not working for me either :(

    Mar 31st, 2007

  38. IceKat83

    Try this link guys. This looks like it.

    http://www.tudobom.de/htdocs/home_en-US.html

    Jun 2nd, 2008

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