To the right of the URL box is a search box which allows you to customize your search engine options. On the right side of the URL box there are bookmarking, history and refresh buttons. The URL box features direct Google searching as well as an auto predict/history feature called Awesome Bar. In recent years Mozilla has also focused on maximizing browsing area by simplifying toolbar controls to just a Firefox button (which contains settings and options) and back/forward buttons. They created the tab structure that has been adopted by most other browsers. Mozilla put of a lot of resources into creating a simple but effective UI aimed at making browsing quicker and easier. The browser is particularly popular with developers thanks to its open source development and active community of advanced users. The key features that have made Mozilla Firefox so popular are the simple and effective UI, browser speed and strong security capabilities. Since then, Mozilla Firefox has consistently featured in the top 3 most popular browsers globally and this is set to continue thanks to the release of Firefox 30. At its public launch in 2004 Mozilla Firefox was the first browser to challenge Microsoft Internet Explorer’s dominance. Indeed, this one was produced literally in hours - viewtopic.php?p=13907129#p13907129Ī layman's synopsis is in #2 here - viewtopic.php?p=13293773#p13293773 That theme was the original 'proof of concept' template.Mozilla Firefox is a fast, light and tidy open source web browser. Using this method, both creation and maintenance times are around 5 - 10% (I do work much faster than most though) of what is required for conventionally coded Complete Themes. Hence why when the default theme changes (or Firefox uses a different default for Mac, etc) then my stuff changes with it. Meanwhile, the default theme is still running underneath. css file to restyle the browser and a 70+ line chrome.manifest that tells the app which areas I want styled. However, every time the default theme was/is changed, those Complete Themes broke and had to be fixed to duplicate the actions of default. It also, once again unlike Firefox default, has to work with at least 4 Release versions of the app. Unlike Firefox default, the same theme also had to cover the different OSs (often by using manifest flags). But even if we did, a bug in the reset code will fail to find it: Code: Select all const MOZ_BUILD_APP = "./suite" įrank Lion wrote:As I've mentioned elsewhere, there is now more than one way to make Complete Themes, so.Ĭare to share a link to this information?Įssentially, for over 10 years conventional Complete Themes replaced the default theme by using a 4 line chrome.manifest and 100+. }, Code: Select all // Reset is only supported for the default profile if the self-migrator used for reset exists.And of course we don't have a self-migrator. Catch exception when there is no selected profile. Return currentProfileDir.equals() + MOZ_BUILD_APP + "&type=" + MOZ_APP_NAME in Cc) Reset is only supported for the default profile if the self-migrator used for reset exists. Let profileService = currentProfileDir = ("ProfD", Ci.nsIFile) * Check if reset is supported for the currently running profile. $("reset-box").style.visibility = "visible" * Profile reset is only supported for the default profile if the appropriate migrator exists. You shouldn't even see the reset box: Code: Select all /** be careful using this button and make a profile backup before using it! Coming from Firefox, it will retain a few browser items, but I doubt that it will keep any mail/news settings (or messages!) which are stored in the profile.Īnyway, a highly questionable change, the scary labels sure were better. I didn't dare yet to actually hit that button, but it's supposed to come up with a dialog stating which items will be retained. Which don't say anything at all (typical Firefox marketing change!). Which fairly unambiguously states what this function is doing. In earlier versions of this feature, those were named: That's an interesting (and possibly misleading) change from 2.31 to 2.32 in the Troubleshooting Information page you can open from the Help menu: If your profile is sufficiently often migrated (it's not clear to me when this feature is triggered) (actually, the trigger is using the "modern" theme, or any 3rd-party theme if a specific change listed below hasn't been made), the Toolkit code inherited from Firefox offers to reset (mostly = clear) your profile.
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