Saturday 24 December 2011

Firefox 9 is out - review! Merry Christmas and Happy new year!

Yup Mozilla keeps releasing new versions of Firefox every 6 weeks. This month Firefox 9 came out. Like I wrote in one of my previous posts I don't use the final releases and today updated to Firefox 10 beta.

So enough with what I use. Lets talk about what is new in Firefox 9 and why should you try it. It's 30% FASTER than Firefox 8 or at least that is the information all over the internet. Everyone says that Mozilla has improved the JavaScript page rendering by 30% which is a good thing. A lot of websites use tons and tons of Javascript code so in my opinion this is definitely a step forward. Again there is nothing new in terms of design and my Firefox themes are compatible with Firefox 10 beta even so it's ok to use them. :)

Finally I want to wish Merry Christmas and Happy new year to all my users, especially those of you who donated. Sure there's not much money but it's something. It's been a good year for my Firefox themes - design improvements, sub-skins, Firefox 4-5-6-7-8-9-10 support and not many bug reports. Thanks for using my themes. Best of luck and happy holidays! :)

Tuesday 20 December 2011

Holidays are coming! Christmas is that time of year when families are together and New year is all about parties, fireworks and fun. Why not bring that holiday spirit to your browser? As I have mentioned before in one of my previous posts I am a Firefox theme developer. It is a hobby. A hobby which requires a lot of time and effort. Firefox themes change the appearance of your browser.
I have 10 themes. One of them is called Purple Fox . It has a unique dark design, over 700 000 downloads and around 85 000 users. This summer I have been think about making a Christmas Firefox theme since the current are no longer supported. I wanted a theme but I Firefox themes are not easy to make a support. They require some image editing knowledge + Css and Css3 for the code.
I've been thinking and I decided to create a Christmas Special version of my Purple Fox Firefox theme.  ( preview below )

Personally I think it is amaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing! What more can you ask for? Awesome background! Dark snowy night in the mountain mixed with some Christmas lights. And lets not forget those candy scrollbars. This comes with 2 sub-skins .
Also the Purple Fox theme pack is absolutely free to install and use. All you have to do is click the green install button and restart Firefox to see the changes.
Since this is a Christmas Special I'll bring back the classic Purple Fox design in early January 2012!
I hope you enjoy this theme as much as I enjoyed creating it! Happy holidays! : )
Download theme from:  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/purple-fox/?src=cb-dl-users