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Why does Linux Firefox look so ugly compared to Windows?

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teverley
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My Windows Firefox, which I am using now, is simple and beautiful. The menus are nicely tucked away, tabs are shiny and sharp-edged (unlike the childish curved Chrome tabs) and help is at hand in the form of a big, orange "Firefox" button. Switch to GNU/Linux(Jolicloud) and GNOME, and the menus are back, the tabs are bubbly and the original design that went into Window's Firefox has all but been replaced with the default theme. Why?

My Windows Firefox, which I am using now, is simple and beautiful. The menus are nicely tucked away, tabs are shiny and sharp-edged (unlike the childish curved Chrome tabs) and help is at hand in the form of a big, orange "Firefox" button. Switch to GNU/Linux(Jolicloud) and GNOME, and the menus are back, the tabs are bubbly and the original design that went into Window's Firefox has all but been replaced with the default theme. Why?

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In the "Toolbars" section of the "View" menu you can turn off the menu bar to enable the Firefox button, though it's not yet as pretty as the Windows version.

This link has some technical details on the work required to update Firefox's look and feel on Linux: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=513159

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the-edmeister
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Ask the group that makes that Linux distro, they decided on which ugly theme they used for their version of Firefox. Ubuntu does the same bu providing their theme for Firefox, but I don't know how that one looks as I am still using Firefox 3.6 on my netbook which only has 900MHz processor.

finitarry
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Third party themes work in Linux, do they not? Why not use one of those?

iMarshmellow
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You might want to check the version of Firefox: Jolicloud uses FF4 I think.

Matt Brubeck
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In the "Toolbars" section of the "View" menu you can turn off the menu bar to enable the Firefox button, though it's not yet as pretty as the Windows version.

This link has some technical details on the work required to update Firefox's look and feel on Linux: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=513159

cor-el
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On Linux the orange Firefox button that shows when the menu bar is hidden is gray and is displayed on the tab bar instead of in the title bar on Windows, so set the tabs on top if you want to see it there.

teverley
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Thank you! I'm restarting into Linux now to try your ideas...