Comments on: Charamel Best Firefox & Thunderbird Theme

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:30:39 +0000

Silvermel and Charamel have both returned to the Firefox Add-ons Themes List and are currently still compatible with Firefox 3.5.

Sorry, I don’t have the link but I thought you should know.

By: Silvermel - Return of Firefox Style | Blog on a Stick

Silvermel - Return of Firefox Style | Blog on a Stick — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 02:44:12 +0000

[...] a while ago when Charamel roamed the streets? It was one of the most detailed and perfect Firefox themes I’ve ever [...]

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:29:06 +0000

Thanks for the tip Jens!

By: Jens Rodi

Jens Rodi — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:17:16 +0000

I’ve just noticed that the official Charamel theme site has a new and updated version available for Firefox 2 and Thunderbird 2. Seems to work alright.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:18:53 +0000

Yea, Charmel is pretty much dead in the water right now.

By: dan

dan — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 07:08:41 +0000

The latest available version breaks thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (at least on my gentoo linux), I think it’s because there’s a new “Tag” icon.

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 17:17:25 +0000

John! Great post! I am now rocking Charamel on FF2. Thanks for the tips.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 21:01:49 +0000

Last I knew, you could go to addons.mozilla.org and just install it.

By: John

John — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:09:42 +0000

For fellow charamel theme fans, there is a quick’n'dirty hack which will allow our beloved theme to be used in FF2.0 (although, as with any hack, there are no guarantees that it will work 100%!!)

How? I hear you ask Simple.

1. Download the last official version of charamel from here (v1.2b): http://members.shaw.ca/lucx/charamel-1.2b.jar

( note the site can also be accessed as: http://www.charamel.ca )

2. Open the .jar file with winzip (or any other zip program; note, if the “Open with…” option doesn’t appear on the right-click context menu, just rename the file to charamel-1.2b.zip).

3. Look for the file install.rdf in the zip file.

4. Extract the file to a temporary folder (or wherever you have the charamel-1.2b.jar/zip), or (if your zip viewer allows it, e.g. Winzip allows an external viewer to be configured) view the content of install.rdf directly in your favourite editor.

5. Look for the following line (should be line 17):

1.6

6. Replace the 1.6 with 2.0

7. If you want to use it in thunderbird too (was TB 2.0 released yet?) then also change line 25.

8. Save the updated file and drag it back into charamel-1.2b.jar/zip to update the original. Note, if you used the external viewer option of winzip (or other zip program) you will probably receive notification that the file changed and be asked if you want to update the zip – choose “yes”

9. Open the Themes window from the Tools menu.

10. Drag charamel-1.2b.jar onto the window and voilà, Firefox 2.0 should happily accept the theme!

Enjoy!

John

By: Patches

Patches — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 22:49:23 +0000

I just updated to Firefox 2 and found that Charamel won’t work! And the Charamel site is on “indefinite hiatus.” What a shame! I’m trying other themes now but don’t care for any of them.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 23:42:31 +0000

I would search the Mozilla forms for answers to that one.

By: Distressed user

Distressed user — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:20:58 +0000

Can anyone update charamel theme to work with Firefox 2.0?
lucx, the author, seems to have disappeared and there are a lot of people in the community who just love this theme.

If anyone could update it that would be super!

By: Lesley

Lesley — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 11:38:43 +0000

i ADORE charamel too. it’s just …. the best. I use it at work (slighly older version of TB). i just downloaded TB to use on laptop at home and the first thing i did was rush to download the sweet and lovely Charamel…. like others here distressed to find it gone!!

I’ll be watching this page and the mozilla forum link for ANY update on this burning issue.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 14:58:59 +0000

Jason, I don’t have the latest version for Thunderbird. Check http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=319097&highlight=charamel for more info.

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 14:02:39 +0000

I can’t upgrade to Thunderbird 1.5 until I get a compatible Charamel theme! Tim, can you provide the one you downloaded? Or maybe email it to me? fd1i483eclsa2s5l@jetable.org should work for the next week.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 17:18:56 +0000

I found the updated version for Thunderbird 1.5 on the Thunderbird site but the next day it was gone. Fortunately I had downloaded it. Now it seems to have disappeared.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 24 Dec 2005 09:19:52 +0000

Excellent news Gloria!! Thanks for the update.

By: Gloria Schwenderlauf

Gloria Schwenderlauf — Sat, 24 Dec 2005 07:17:25 +0000

Hi all,

On 12/12/2005 I wrote to lucx and asked about the Charamel Theme being upgraded for the Firefox and Thunderbird versions 1.5.

I got a very quick response saying that it is coming!!

I can’t wait!! I have downloaded many different themes but the Charamel remains my favorite. I have been checking back frequently to the site to see if a new theme has been put up. I absolutely love that theme!!

Merry Christmas all….. we all have something to look forward to.

Gloria… aka ladywolf

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 22:08:05 +0000

Unfortunately the theme does not work with Thunderbird 1.5 yet.

By: skwij

skwij — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 05:30:23 +0000

Thanks so much for posting the links to download this gorgeous theme. After some messing about with my TB 1.0.7 I lost the compatibility for this theme, and you were the only place I could find to re-download it.

Many many thanks! My eyes are happy and soothed once again.

CJ/luvfishies/skwij