In my opinion, the overall legibility is a step down at the default-skin, if you're living with Aero. Also i don't like the new look of having a single button in the upper left corner, so i decided to switch on the menubar. Now that's really annoying: Black background with black font, with white shadows. I know, i use Pale Moon, but the heck: What was in the mind of creating this skin? Anyways: Figured out, how to disable Aero for Pale Moon:
• Go to your Pale Moon installdirectory
• Locate the folder "chrome" and open it
• There you'll see a file, named "nonlocalized.manifest"
• Open "nonlocalized.manifest" with your preferred texteditor
• Now look for each line, with "osversion>=6" & "osversion<=6" at the end
• Simply add a zero behind it. osversion 6 = Windows Vista & 7
• The final result should show like: "osversion>=60" & "osversion<=60"
• What did we do? We said, that it would require a system, above 60 (maybe we'll reach this in 20 years ) to activate Aero-effects
• Simply save it & you're done
You don't like to edit it by yourself?
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# browser.manifest
skin browser classic/1.0 jar:browser.jar!/skin/classic/browser/ os!=WINNT
content browser jar:browser.jar!/content/browser/ contentaccessible=yes
overlay chrome://browser/content/browser.xul chrome://browser/content/safebrowsing/report-phishing-overlay.xul
overlay chrome://global/content/viewPartialSource.xul chrome://browser/content/viewSourceOverlay.xul
skin browser classic/1.0 jar:browser.jar!/skin/classic/browser/ os=WINNT osversion<666
overlay chrome://global/content/viewSource.xul chrome://browser/content/viewSourceOverlay.xul
skin browser classic/1.0 jar:browser.jar!/skin/classic/aero/browser/ os=WINNT osversion>=666
skin communicator classic/1.0 jar:browser.jar!/skin/classic/communicator/
override chrome://global/content/license.html chrome://browser/content/license.html
style chrome://global/content/customizeToolbar.xul chrome://browser/skin/
style chrome://global/content/customizeToolbar.xul chrome://browser/content/browser.css
content branding jar:browser.jar!/content/branding/ contentaccessible=yes
overlay chrome://browser/content/browser.xul chrome://browser/content/win6BrowserOverlay.xul os=WINNT osversion>=666
# pippki.manifest
content pippki jar:pippki.jar!/content/pippki/
# toolkit.manifest
content xbl-marquee jar:toolkit.jar!/content/xbl-marquee/
skin global classic/1.0 jar:toolkit.jar!/skin/classic/global/ os!=WINNT
content global jar:toolkit.jar!/content/global/ contentaccessible=yes
skin mozapps classic/1.0 jar:toolkit.jar!/skin/classic/aero/mozapps/ os=WINNT osversion>=666
skin global classic/1.0 jar:toolkit.jar!/skin/classic/aero/global/ os=WINNT osversion>=666
content mozapps jar:toolkit.jar!/content/mozapps/
skin mozapps classic/1.0 jar:toolkit.jar!/skin/classic/mozapps/ os!=WINNT
content global-region jar:toolkit.jar!/content/global-region/
content cookie jar:toolkit.jar!/content/cookie/
content passwordmgr jar:toolkit.jar!/content/passwordmgr/
override chrome://global/content/nsTransferable.js chrome://global/content/nsDragAndDrop.js
content global-platform jar:toolkit.jar!/content/global-platform/ platform
skin mozapps classic/1.0 jar:toolkit.jar!/skin/classic/mozapps/ os=WINNT osversion<666
resource gre-resources jar:toolkit.jar!/res/
content satchel jar:toolkit.jar!/content/satchel/
skin global classic/1.0 jar:toolkit.jar!/skin/classic/global/ os=WINNT osversion<666
Edit: Last but not least: Thanks moonchild for Pale Moon. Since Firefox is going the damn wrong way, you keep a wonderful project. Dunno what i'd do, if Pale Moon wasn't here.
greetings