Ubuntu Daily » Firefox http://www.ubuntudaily.com Your Daily Dose Of Ubuntu Linux Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:10:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 How to prettify the Firefox progress bar http://www.ubuntudaily.com/2007/05/02/how-to-prettify-the-firefox-progress-bar/ http://www.ubuntudaily.com/2007/05/02/how-to-prettify-the-firefox-progress-bar/#comments Wed, 02 May 2007 22:16:13 +0000 Tim http://ubuntudaily.com/2007/05/02/how-to-prettify-the-firefox-progress-bar/ Fission is a Firefox extension that merges the progress bar with the address bar. The result is a bar that, in my opinion, looks nicer and is easier to monitor because it is in the top toolbar to which you will most likely pay more attention.

You can change the color to your liking and even use an image instead, although I’m perfectly happy with the default, which looks like this:

fission.png

Try it out yourself and download the extension at Mozilla’s Add-ons page.

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Fortunately there is an easy way to exchange them, and that is by following these steps:

  1. Download firefox-widgets-10.tar.bz2 and unzip it.
  2. Open a terminal and enter the newly appeared directory
  3. Execute the install script (by typing ./install), enter 1 to choose the install option and if asked, enter your password
  4. Restart Firefox and enjoy

Here is a screenshot to show the difference:


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