Arvid Axelsson

Themes discontinued

Arvid — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 11:54:46 +0000

It’s time to finally end my theming efforts. I have no plans to update my themes for Firefox 4 or later. Reasons for this include a better default theme, a lower number of users of my themes and a large amount of work required just for maintenance. Thanks to everyone who has been using them.

I welcome suggestions of opportunities to make use of my design skills.

Various photos

Arvid — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 07:35:13 +0000

Here’s another couple of photos I quite like. I have also updated the photos in my previous posts with improved post-processing, considerably so in some cases.

All are available in high quality, suitable for desktop background, for example.

Kempelton 3.2

Arvid — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:56:41 +0000

The new Kempelton version has an updated back and forward button style just like Qute 4.1, as well as a few more improvements. Each of the default set of toolbar icons has been carefully tweaked in color and shape. The back and forward buttons are slightly lighter and the stop icon is more subdued and shaded more consistent with the other icons.

With such a simple design as that of the Kempelton reload icon, you might think it would be easy to find the right shape, but I have kept finding the need to refine it in pretty much every version.

Together, I think, the impression is lighter and more balanced and harmonic.

Kempelton Large is also updated.

Icon set additions

The SVG set is updated as well and has a few additions not in the Firefox theme, seen here. They were for an updated Thunderbird theme, but then I lost interest and got less time.

Qute 4.1

Arvid — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:52:25 +0000

With a new Firefox version almost out, it is time for my “traditional” theme updates. Other than Firefox 3.6 compatibility, Qute 4.1 hasn’t changed very much. An exception being a few changes to the back and forward buttons.

The forward button has a revised shape, inspired by Firefox 4 mock-ups. It is shaded with more depth to better match the back button. The etching around the buttons is removed which helps reducing clutter, and the drop-down arrow has a clearer mouse-over indication.

The SVG set is also updated.

Kempelton Large 3.1

Arvid — Wed, 20 May 2009 23:51:41 +0000

It’s back! The large version of Kempelton is once again updated to the same level as the regular theme. It is a bit unpolished and perhaps buggy, but it’ll do for now.

Kempelton 3.1

Arvid — Wed, 20 May 2009 23:49:58 +0000

Kempelton 3.1 is released. It is updated for, and requires, Firefox 3.5 (beta). (If you don’t want to run a pre-release, you shouldn’t have to wait much longer until it’s final.)

Other than that, the theme has been refined in numerous areas. Among the more noticeable are the icons for back, forward, reload and print.

I have also updated the SVG set with the new graphics.

Foggy winter night photos

Arvid — Tue, 05 May 2009 08:28:37 +0000

Qute 4

Arvid — Fri, 01 May 2009 09:11:05 +0000

The oldest Firefox theme available has returned in a completely new version. I’m proud to announce Qute 4, available for Firefox 3.5.

Get Qute on Firefox Add-ons

The icons in Qute 3.* date back to late 2004, shortly after the release of Firefox 1.0. It has remained fairly popular, but has increasingly lagged behind my skills as well as in completeness. To maintain the theme properly, the only option was doing everything from scratch. And here it is.

With this being a new version, I naturally tried to stay pretty close to the old icons. Still, to make the style consistent, and generally improve the quality, I felt some significant changes were necessary. The result is I think 4 is closer to the original “spirit” of Qute, not to mention just simply better. See for yourself in this comparison.

In addition, as with Kempelton, I’m making the Qute 4 SVG files available and allowed for use under license. Just get Inkscape, which is free and easy to use, and you can edit, convert to PNG or learn from them.

Some photos

Arvid — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:41:42 +0000

I’ve recently got a camera. Here’s some of my better attempts so far.

Theme platform support

Arvid — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:59:30 +0000

Supporting Mac OS X has turned out to be too difficult. I was able to fix the scrollbar issue but it’s a clumsy solution I’d rather not have to deal with. And even then, a host of other issues remain. So I will just consider it unsupported. If anyone wants to create Mac OS X versions of my themes, let me know.

I’ve marked the themes as for Windows on Firefox Add-ons. I’m not sure it’s necessary to mark other systems such as Linux unsupported, but they only allow the choice of a single platform or all. There appears to be many problems on Linux anyway, so it might be best. You can always download and install it manually.