Ugly form elements in firefox for Linux

glomy · n00b Joined: 18 Jun 2005 Posts: 4

I emerged firefox to use in a gnome desktop environment and noticed to form elements are very ugly compared to those in the windows version of firefox. For example the radio button and text field of the google main page (www.google.com) look really ugly, compared to the windows version of firefox.

Is it possible to let 'xul' (the internal firefox rendering engine) use gtk for it's form elements? I compiled firebox with the gtk USE flag, do that doesn't seem to work?

Sodki · Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 5:15 pm Post subject:

http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=21812

Download, uncompress and copy the contents of the "res" folder to "/usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/res". Restart Firefox and you're all set.

glomy · n00b Joined: 18 Jun 2005 Posts: 4

Thanks a lot, it looks much beter

It would be even nicer if firefox would use gtk widgets for it's form elements. So it would use the same theme as gnome.

noup · l33t Joined: 21 Mar 2003 Posts: 917