The Hickensian

6.02.06

A new home for Aronnax

Whenever anyone has asked me if I was going to a Firefox theme, I tell them there’s no point. There’s a chap called Aronnax, who has created some beautiful themes that make Firefox feel a whole lot more like a Mac product.

Recently, his site at spymac has been down a lot, so I offered him the Take back the web.org site as something more reliable. I felt it was so important that his themes are as available as possible, as they really make Firefox liveable on a Mac. He’s redesigned too, take a look.

The old Firefox wallpaper is still available.

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No.1

Chris McElligott said 1244 days ago:

I’m so glad somebody did this, because his work is nothing short of amazing. Jon, you need to hook him up with an RSS feed

No.2

Jon Hicks said 1244 days ago:

Yeah, in time, thats the plan

No.3

Erwin Heiser said 1244 days ago:

Nice themes, I installed Grapple Pro.

No.4

clint said 1244 days ago:

I completely agree, the arronax themes have graced my ff installs since they came out. top knotch.

hope alls well on your end jon :)

No.5

Trevor said 1244 days ago:

Lovely themes. A shame the standard orange RSS indicator in the address bar is turned to a muted grey/black though.

No.6

Nathan Smith said 1244 days ago:

That was awfully generous of you. It’s good to see that “open-source” spirit perpetuated across the web. Viva la Fox.

No.7

brian warren said 1243 days ago:

thanks jon.

No.8

Anthony Baker said 1243 days ago:

Big kudos, Jon. Thanks for doing this. Like you, I’m a bit of a theme fiend and having these available for Firefox on OS X is definitely something worthwhile.

This kind of good server karma brings back memories… back in 1995/96, I was working as an executive at a web development firm called Silicon Reef in San Francisco and had met Craig Newmark at some gig. I later found out that he was looking for a hosting provider for his mailing list (which had grown beyond its original server). I thought what he was doing was wonderful and pitched it to my boss as something we should do pro bono, as a community good. We did so until he outgrew us.

Man, that seems like a long time ago…

No.9

Aronnax said 1243 days ago:

@Trevor
OK – you are not the only one with this opinion ;-)
i have added a description to change the RSS indicator.
http://www.takebacktheweb.org/CaE.html
(but i will not change the muted grey/black in the themes)

by the way
if “mozilla update” would works better with Mac only themes, a site like this would be absolute unnecessary – but it dosn’t ;-(
https://addons.mozilla.org/themes/authorprofiles.php?id=888

to Jon Hicks: many thanks – to “mozilla update”: thanks for nothing ;-)