Love Firefox? Love the Chrome Theme? Have Them Both!

By Luqmaan

Chrome was released much hype with Google promoting it via their home page too, and the word was all around the blogosphere and the Internet, and as expected that has pretty much died away now, Google Wave is the next big thing from Google currently having its round of buzz. While Chrome is great and many have switched from Firefox to Chrome I’m still sticking with Firefox now mainly because of the Addons.

However, I’ve got to hand it to Chrome for the interface (i.e. their default skin). I like the tab arrangement, the blue all round (I’m a fan of blue) and the fact that it’s not the same old kind of interface that browsers usually have. It never really occurred to me that a replica of the Chrome theme would be available for Firefox but while writing up another post I stumbled upon the Chrome Package Addon (to make it look just like Chrome it installs an Addon as well as it restructures parts of the interface, mainly the tabs).

The Addon is actually an improved version of the Chromifox Basic theme which was another shot by another developer to make Firefox all ‘Chromed up’ but it didn’t really get there as much as Chrome Package did. There are a few glitches though, maximizing the browser covers the task bar even if the task bar is locked so unless you don’t mind it you’ll have to leave the window non-maximized.

Apart from that I think it’s a pretty good impression of the Chrome theme and I’m currently using it however I might switch back to the default if the non-maximized state starts to bother me.

Chrome Package Addon Listing (Experimental)

Chromifox Basic Theme Listing

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jlbraaten June 26, 2009 10:58 am

I love Chrome because of the performance. I love Firefox because of the utility. I’m somewhat torn on the UI of both.

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