How to customise Firefox 1.0

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[Aberdeen]

I have actually been using firefox for nearly a year now, but there are a few things about this new version I would like to change, but don't know how.

First do I change the icons back to version .7 and .8 (I think they looked better)

How do I get rid of the GO icon. Don't like it at all.

How do I change the search toolbar on the right, so it uses google.co.uk and ebay.co.uk

Love the tabs

Cheers

[kodaks]

Greetings,

>>First do I change the icons back to version .7 and .8 (I think they looked better)

I'm not too sure, but you may want to dig arround the extensions, by going here:
[update.mozilla.org...]

>>How do I get rid of the GO icon. Don't like it at all.

You may just want to change the theme. I personally like the Noia 2.0 Extreme theme from Mozilla.

>>How do I change the search toolbar on the right, so it uses google.co.uk and ebay.co.uk

You can find hundreds of more search engines for the bar by visiting:
[mycroft.mozdev.org...]

I hope this helps!

[copongcopong]

tinkering with the browser.jar (browser.xul file) in the chrome folder would customize it fully ....

[Teknorat]

If you right hand click next to the address bar you can select "customise" then simply drag the Go button into the box of unused icons :D

[Aberdeen]

Great stuff,

So how do I remove search plugins.

I want to replace the google.com for the google.co.uk

Has anyone thought of doing a web master world plug in?

Cheers

[Aberdeen]

Sorry to answer myself, but if you just go into the searchplugins dir and you can edit and delete to your hearts content.

Cheers

[jdMorgan]

To change the default search URL (and many other settings), type "about:config" (no quotes) into your address bar. This is a "page" inside Firefox itself, with many browser configuration settings displayed and editable.

Look for the setting "browser.search.defaulturl", right-click, and change the value to "http://www.google.co.uk/search?lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=" or whatever URL you like.

If you bookmark the "about:config" page, you'll have easy access to tweak the other settings, too.

Jim

[Hester]

To change the look of the buttons, just download a new skin. (I think there is one for the old look.)

You can add a search engine by clicking on the arrow next to the big G in the search field.

[encyclo]

The old default skin is called Qute - but it hasn't yet been updated for 1.0. Most likely, it'll be available in a few days, so I'll just have to be patient until it turns up as an update.

I find the default theme particularly ugly - it's the weakest point of the browser in my opinion. Qute was (and is) beautiful, and is a far better choice.

[Hester]

They had to lose it because of licencing problems.