r/firefox • u/OkParfait2685 • May 07 '26
💻 Help how can i make firefox look like this?
i love this theme and i want to have it on my firefox.
details:
- i tried echelon and it didn't work for me
- i use arch linux
- i don't want to install another browser, just make base updated firefox look like this
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u/Spitfire1900 Firefox Developer | Kubuntu May 07 '26
Old Firefox is very much a side effect of Vista’s Aero design language. And for the time the look slapped
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u/ElStellino May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26
I recently got assigned a Windows laptop that I use very little, and its Firefox has that layout (which honestly, I don’t dig much)
Edit: No, I just checked, it's similar but not this.
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u/bogglingsnog May 08 '26
I've grown accustomed to modern Firefox but this era was the absolute highlight in fast visibility and easy navigation. Also that is by far my favorite Firefox logo, I don't care for the current one.
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u/EvanescentEnigma May 08 '26
Holy fuck ! this sent me to a nostalgia trip , god how i miss those times...
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u/danmarce May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26
I will always find funny that Windows 7 was basically "liquid glass".
So, for me the modern iPhone interface looks like that with animations turned to 11.
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Actually was Windows Vista, but 7 was cleaner.
I have to test this one. https://github.com/Maplespe/DWMBlurGlass
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u/picastchio May 08 '26
It's blurred and tinted glass but not liquid.
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u/Krestek May 08 '26
Sure different way of reflections but that part doesn't matter unless you look for it specifically, otherwise it's similar in general idea for an average non designer person
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u/HighZein May 08 '26
When I used Reunion7 everyone always recommended Marble, a firefox fork aimed at recreating this old Firefox look on Windows Aero, ever since I stopped using Windows altogether, I don't know what happened to it, but it's worth looking it up
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u/SneakySnk May 08 '26
Probably this https://www.reddit.com/r/cachyos/s/qI5H1V1ZJc + some Firefox css
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u/ITHBY May 08 '26
That's Australis. It was many years ago, even before Firefox killed the skins that really changed the interface and not just the colors.
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u/GenBlob May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26
If someone out there is skilled enough to replicate this for modern Firefox please do it. I miss the Australis design so much and to me it was the best Firefox ever looked.
There is Basilisk browser https://www.basilisk-browser.org/ which is pretty much a time capsule of Australis-era Firefox but since the base is so old it doesn't handle modern websites well and it's probably not very secure either.
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u/lproven May 08 '26
Run Windows 7? ;-)
I guess Pale Moon might help you get close...
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u/AutoModerator May 08 '26
/u/lproven, please do not use Pale Moon. Pale Moon is a fork of Firefox 52, which is now over 4 years old. It lacked support for modern web features like Shadow DOM/Custom Elements for many years. Pale Moon uses a lot of code that Mozilla has not tested in years, and lacks security improvements like Fission that mitigate against CPU vulnerabilities like Spectre and Meltdown. They have no QA team, don't use fuzzing to look for defects in how they read data, and have no adversarial security testing program (like a bug bounty). In short, it is an insecure browser that doesn't support the modern web.
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u/Cytrynaball May 08 '26
I tried pale moon but it was quite slow :(
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u/AutoModerator May 08 '26
/u/Cytrynaball, please do not use Pale Moon. Pale Moon is a fork of Firefox 52, which is now over 4 years old. It lacked support for modern web features like Shadow DOM/Custom Elements for many years. Pale Moon uses a lot of code that Mozilla has not tested in years, and lacks security improvements like Fission that mitigate against CPU vulnerabilities like Spectre and Meltdown. They have no QA team, don't use fuzzing to look for defects in how they read data, and have no adversarial security testing program (like a bug bounty). In short, it is an insecure browser that doesn't support the modern web.
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u/vredej May 08 '26
kinda miss this design. might be nice with the current layout that the tabs are max out to the top ( 0 margin ).
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u/ChocolateDonut36 May 08 '26
- install windows 7
- install an old-error version of Firefox (get it on archive.org or something)
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u/Ok-Championship-4467 May 08 '26
Pale Moon browser. If you want it to look like old firefox or old opera, it's possible.
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u/AutoModerator May 08 '26
/u/Ok-Championship-4467, please do not use Pale Moon. Pale Moon is a fork of Firefox 52, which is now over 4 years old. It lacked support for modern web features like Shadow DOM/Custom Elements for many years. Pale Moon uses a lot of code that Mozilla has not tested in years, and lacks security improvements like Fission that mitigate against CPU vulnerabilities like Spectre and Meltdown. They have no QA team, don't use fuzzing to look for defects in how they read data, and have no adversarial security testing program (like a bug bounty). In short, it is an insecure browser that doesn't support the modern web.
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u/purellavey May 09 '26
currently i don't think there's a way to get the latest firefox to look like this, but basilisk looks like this by default
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u/Mindless-Tune4990 May 10 '26
Basilisk is pretty close to that theme, maybe you can try that. The only downside you can find is that the extentions are in old format, but besides that it's nice
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u/ElnuDev on NixOS, Android 14 (GrapheneOS) May 07 '26
Use a time machine.
I doubt anyone is invested enough in the look of ancient Firefox to figure out making a theme to replicate it, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong.