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firefox package

Firefox forms are ugly

Bug #63758 reported by Frank Niedermann
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firefox (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
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Mozilla Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox

The firefox forms and buttons are ugly, please see image ff-bevore.jpg

It can be easily improved, example in ff-after.jpg

This can be done this way:

wget hhttp://users.tkk.fi/~otsaloma/art/firefox-form-widgets.tar.gz

tar xvfz firefox-form-widgets.tar.gz

sudo cp /usr/lib/firefox/res/forms.css /usr/lib/firefox/res/forms.css.bak

cat firefox-form-widgets/res/forms-extra.css | sudo tee --append /usr/lib/firefox/res/forms.css >> /dev/null

sudo cp -r firefox-form-widgets/res/form-widgets/ /usr/lib/firefox/res

rm -rf firefox-form-widgets*

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Frank Niedermann (fbn) wrote :
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Frank Niedermann (fbn) wrote :
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Frank Niedermann (fbn) wrote :

sorry, the first firefox bevore image was wrong (same as after)

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Pradeep (pradeep+-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

I agree, the default forms are ugly. Although I'm not sure I can confirm this since this is more of a 'look' issue than of functionality.

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Frank Niedermann (fbn) wrote :

I think it should be fixed if that's possible, no matter if it's named a bug or a look issue.

Pradeep (pradeep+-deactivatedaccount)
Changed in firefox:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Mateusz Drożdżyński (matid) wrote :

The changes mentioned in this bug are not likely to be applied, since AFAIK they are not W3C compliant.
But I have to agree that we have to come up with a solution to this problem, preferably by having native GTK widgets embed in Gecko.

Changed in firefox:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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Frank Niedermann (fbn) wrote :

having native GTK widget embed in Gecko sounds like a lot of work and much time required - is that right (I'm not familar with GTK widgets or Gecko at all).

if so, is there a workaround until work is done?

Hilario J. Montoliu (hjmf) (hmontoliu)
Changed in firefox:
assignee: nobody → mozilla-bugs
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Kang-il Park (aakc12) wrote :

how do I undo this? the forms DO look much better, but it makes the webpages look unpolished.

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geeknik (brian-carpenter) wrote :

I'd like to see this get fixed as well. Having to redo this "fix" everytime Firefox is updated is rather tedious.

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Dan Roberts (ademan555) wrote :

I think this could probably be closed since I'm writing this from firefox-3.0 beta 4 in gutsy and I've got native Gtk+ widgets for my forms, and it IS beautiful.

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote : Re: [Bug 63758] Re: Firefox forms are ugly

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 07:17:50PM -0000, Dan Roberts wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 63242 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/63242
>
> I think this could probably be closed since I'm writing this from
> firefox-3.0 beta 4 in gutsy and I've got native Gtk+ widgets for my
> forms, and it IS beautiful.
>

this bug is already closed as its a duplicate of bug
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/63242

 - Alexander

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