[Release] Various theme ports/forks

[riiis]

I've released an update to PMOpera, adding persona support, as well as a few general fixes. As it's got quite a few changes in it, for now it's a test build, v1.0.3test. I'd appreciate knowing how well it works.

I'm not sure how to categorize this, as good news or bad news. It appears that FXOpera version 25.4, on which PMOpera was probably based, is severely broken, with large numbers of issues. These issues were corrected in subsequent versions of FXOpera for Firefox versions >24.*. All of these numerous issues, unfortunately, also appear to have been ported to PMOpera. That's the bad news. However, the good news is that FXOpera version 22 appears to have none of the issues of version 25.4. That is, FXOpera version 22 works near perfectly in Pale Moon.

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FXOpera has received 111 5-star reviews. One of these 5-star reviews contained the following information:

"Opera 12" Australis compatible...
Please, make FXOpera 22 (last version with Opera Presto theme) support Fx 28+ (Australis). Maybe you create other theme named FXOpera Presto with it.

The author of FXOpera apparently updated his add-on for newer Webkit/Blink versions of Opera, and didn't quite get the transformation done right until sometime after FXOpera version 25.4 was released.

Note that the titlebar in FXOpera 22 is always set to blue, rather than to the color of the Windows theme or the persona. Also the background color of the quickdial grid page is always a lighter blue. That should limit the personas, which can be used, to non-clashing personas compatible with these blue colors (which is okay).

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In a previous post, I noted that custom pinned/unpinned and block buttons were not always visible against dark thumbnails in the quickdial grid. Custom thumbnail buttons in FXOpera version 22 are more visible than were buttons in FXOpera version 25.4 and PMOpera. Thus, these buttons are no longer considered an issue.

The install.rdf of FXOpera version 22 has a max version of Firefox 24.0. This max version was bumped to Firefox 25.0, with no issues noted,

[Lootyhoof]

Other than the new tab issue (which admittedly I forgot, and will be addressed), what issues are there?

[New Tobin Paradigm]

Thanks to Ryan's hard work and dedication.. I want you to just check out.. https://addons.palemoon.org/themes/complete/

And know.. Updates will be served via the add-ons site now! Just like I promised..

[riiis]

Thanks to Ryan's hard work and dedication.. I want you to just check out.. https://addons.palemoon.org/themes/complete/

And know.. Updates will be served via the add-ons site now! Just like I promised..

What is happening with Compact Moon?

[New Tobin Paradigm]

Thanks to Ryan's hard work and dedication.. I want you to just check out.. https://addons.palemoon.org/themes/complete/

And know.. Updates will be served via the add-ons site now! Just like I promised..

What is happening with Compact Moon? Classic Compact is one of the most awesome Firefox themes of all time, yet the Compact Moon port of Classic Compact appears to be the only theme left out?

It needs to be split out of this bundle and have the extension separate from the theme.

On another note, though your assistance and comments are very helpful it is getting a bit much. So please take it down a notch.

[riiis]

Other than the new tab issue (which admittedly I forgot, and will be addressed), what issues are there?

I assume your question relates to the PMOpera theme, and not some other theme.

The Opera standard theme for Opera 12.* and Presto engine support bookmarks and the bookmarks toolbar, the menubar, sidebars, a speeddial, the statusbar, titlebar, personas, and other theme components. While these individual items are not the same in Firefox and Pale Moon, as they are in Opera, there are large similarities. Beginning with Opera 15 (there are no Opera 13-14 desktop versions), Opera switched to the Chromium/Blink engine used by Google Chrome. And Opera's standard theme no longer supported any of these items, or these items' appearance in Opera 15+ were radically altered (for example, no bookmarks, no sidebars, no statusbar, no titlebar, no menubar, and personas were reduced to being wallpaper for the mandatory speeddial). And like in Google Chrome, tabs are always on top and now there is very little difference between Opera 15+ with windows maximized, and Opera 15+ with windows not maximized.

FXOpera version 22 was the last version of FXOpera that attempted to bring the Opera 12.* theme to Firefox. Beginning with FXOpera version 22.5, FXOpera attempted to bring the chrome-like Opera 15+ theme to Firefox, replacing the Opera 12.* theme. And, many mistakes were made. For example, personas painted some toolbars when windows were maximized, and did not paint the same toolbars when windows were not maximized. Lots of text often could no longer be read, depending on persona and configuration, in the titlebar, the menubar, the bookmarks bar or elsewhere. Toolbar icons could no longer be seen, hidden behind a dark persona or even behind the dark blue color FXOpera uses as a default. The All-in-One Sidebar add-on for Firefox, a popular port of the Opera sidebar to Firefox, no longer displayed properly with FXOpera, using a persona. These issues persisted through FXOpera version 25.4, the last FXOpera version said to be compatible with Firefox 24.*, and the apparent base for PMOpera. All these issues appear to have been fixed by the FXOpera developer, but in later versions of FXOpera no longer compatible with Firefox 24.* or Pale Moon. These issues also appear to persist in all versions of PMOpera. On the other hand, all these issues are not issues using FXOpera version 22.

FXOpera version 22 appears to be compatible to Pale Moon (except for changing max version in install.rdf, apparently compatible with -0- issues out-of-the-box). It may be easier to fix all these issues in PMOpera, and other issues not yet identified, by starting anew with porting FXOpera version 22, is all.

[Lootyhoof]

Cannot confirm many of these issues as of v1.0.3test. In any case, v1.0.3test2 is out to fix the AiOS issue. I've not enabled personas on the bar itself, unlike later FXOpera versions, as personas simply aren't build for it - you'll find the images cutting off if you want it to extend across the entire toolbar,they just aren't long enough.

I've also forked version 22 as its own theme, and is now on GitHub.

[hitokage]

Lootythoof,
I recently tried out Moonfox3, but didn't like the new tab style (height in particular) - especially when using it with Tab Mix Plus and having multiple rows. Is there any way it can be changed to what it was like in Firefox 3 theme for Firefox 4+(and Reloaded)?

The addition of making the text bold on the current tab was a welcome addition. Thanks and keep up the good work.

[Lootyhoof]

Lootythoof,
I recently tried out Moonfox3, but didn't like the new tab style (height in particular) - especially when using it with Tab Mix Plus and having multiple rows. Is there any way it can be changed to what it was like in Firefox 3 theme for Firefox 4+(and Reloaded)?

The addition of making the text bold on the current tab was a welcome addition. Thanks and keep up the good work.

This seems to be an issue with Tab Mix Plus specifically, as it seems to purposely alter the tab height. I'll take a look into it.

In the meantime, I've released Moonfox 3 v1.0.2, to even further replicate the default Firefox 3 look.

I've also released White Moon v1.0.4, to add persona support plus several other changes/improvements (including using more icons from the latest Simple White, plus internal debloating to make the theme marginally smaller ).

Also, PMOpera 1.0.3 is (finally) out, adding persona support.

All of these should be available via auto-update, so anyone using these can sit back and relax while it downloads automatically.

[hitokage]

The tab height I get in Pale Moon with Moonfox3 was also affected on different machines that did not have Tab Mix Plus installed (it is the same height as shown your screen shot). Tab height is consistent between machines with and without TMP when using Firefox 3 theme for Firefox 4+. If you want I'll try to get you the tab height in pixels of the tabs as I see them on a machine that doesn't have TMP with each theme - I'll make the comparison with your 1.0.2 release and 4.0.1 of FF3 theme for FF4+ Reloaded.

[Lootyhoof]

Does the following userstyle solve the issue?

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.tabbrowser-tabs[multibar=true] .tabbrowser-tab,
.tabbrowser-tabs[multibar=true] .tabs-newtabs-button{
margin: 0 0 -2px 0 !important;
padding: 3px 0px 7px 0px !important;
}
.tabbrowser-tabs[multibar=true],
.tabbrowser-tabs[multibar=true] .tabbrowser-tab[selected=true] {
margin-bottom: -1px !important;
}

[symbio]

hello sir,
firstly, thank you. I use PMOpera theme, and I really like it!
can you fork Naver theme for Firefox. Its simple, clean and crisp theme..
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/naver/

[Lootyhoof]

hello sir,
firstly, thank you. I use PMOpera theme, and I really like it!
can you fork Naver theme for Firefox. Its simple, clean and crisp theme..
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/naver/

Glad you like it!

Sadly I can't fork this, the images are under copyright. See : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefo ... nse/0.2.14

Image files are NHN proprietary
and source code files are under MPL

So, sorry. I'll admit it's a nice theme though!

I can recommend you use White Moon, though, which is similar in its simplicity and overall cleanliness.

[symbio]

Glad you like it!

Sadly I can't fork this, the images are under copyright. See : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefo ... nse/0.2.14

Image files are NHN proprietary
and source code files are under MPL

So, sorry. I'll admit it's a nice theme though!

I can recommend you use White Moon, though, which is similar in its simplicity and overall cleanliness.

Hmm... so sad, because Naver theme is the best theme I ever use on Firefox.
Yes, I'm already use both whitemoon and PMOpera, but PMOpera is my favorite.
Again, thank you for your kind attention mate.

[11ryanc]

Beautiful selection. Still have Kempelton here. Blue Ice is one of my favorite of old themes as well. Looks like somebody reloaded it here https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefo ... -reloaded/
Anyway maybe we could get an official port going for PM? Not sure how they have that licensed.
Thanks

[Lootyhoof]

It's an odd one, for sure. I've contacted the original author of the original Blue Ice theme, to see if I can get permission for those icons. But provisionally, let's say "sure".

[LimboSlam]

There seems to be some bugs in Opresto theme:

Plugin icon missing/blank. It only shows up if it's set for, "Always Activate."

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Double padlocks for Gmail and possibly others.

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[Lootyhoof]

Cannot confirm the plugin icon issue, works for me with Flash set to "ask to activate".





Java:



Please try again after disabling all other add-ons, just to be sure there isn't a conflict.

The double padlocks shouldn't be difficult to fix.

[LimboSlam]

All addons are disabled and I doubled checked, also cleared my browse history (all of it). But I still get the missing plugin icon in the address bar. And yes to confirm the double padlocks is an issue for more then just Gmail. I'm running Windows 7 x64 SP1 with version 25.4.1 of Pale Moon x64 installed.


Flash plugin icon missing in http://abc30.com/video/

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As well as this, but have noticed it's missing for a few seconds (on some sites) and then slides back with no indication of flash needed (plugin icon) in https://github.com/chrisaljoudi/uBlock/releases

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Still getting double padlocks, but have noticed on some websites it loads with two and then converts to one a few seconds later, https://chrismatic.io/ublock/

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[Lootyhoof]

The update I've just pushed, v1.0.1 (via automatic update) should fix these issues.