News, information and updates related to the iPox Mozilla Firefox theme.
Well it’s March and I’ve got some great news, this is the Month of Firefox themes from TwisterMc, aka me! 
Not only do I have an all new theme to offer but just about everyone will get some sort of an update. Some long overdue, some just minor things.
I’ve been working on a brand new theme for a few weeks now if not longer. It’s not completed, but it’s in a good spot. So a release should be coming up sometime in March.
The other day I got an email from Angel_Wings2000 who nicely asked me to create a breast cancer theme. So last night I created PinkHope.
Whenever I think of breast cancer I think of lots of pink and white. So I thought iPox was a good starting point. I took a few hours and I converted iPox from blue to pink.
PinkHope includes a Breast Cancer ribbon for the inactive loading icon and the throbber is a beating heart. Also includes pink scrollbars, bookmark bar, window background and icons. I don’t think it’s overly pink, but some might.
I don’t usually post about multiple theme updates at once, but everyone got a little update today.
As noted earlier, all themes should now be Linux compatible.
MidnightFox also got the status bar code updated so hopefully that ugly grey one is gone.
iPox got the most updates with a new throbber and a few theme fixes throughout.
For the most part, just little tweaks, nothing major.
All updates are available via Mozilla’s Add-On site.
It took a few days and lots and lots of test builds but I think all the Linux crashing issues with Tinseltown, iPox and MidnightFox are fixed! Even better yet, the fixes have no ill effects for Mac or Windows users. I’m so happy.
A huge thanks goes out to all my help including ehume, terry(Denver) (Teruel de Campo MD), Albireo and Richard Hemmer! Without you all I could never have figured it out.
All theme updates should be available on Mozilla’s Add-On site in the next day or two. 
I’ve started a bug tracker application to keep all the bugs, and feature requests, for my Firefox themes in one place. My goal is to not miss out on any requests. Check out the full bug tracker or the quick submit bug form.
Basically, just fill in a few fields, hit submit and I’ll be notified via email. It’s that easy. It’s even got a developer comments area where I can respond to any issues.
Thanks to ZoHo for creating an easy to use, and very powerful, online application for collecting and organizing data.
iPox has been re-worked and released for Firefox 2.0! Get the full details on the new iPox page.
What’s new in iPox 1.0
- Real Firefox 2 support.
- New status bar
- Slightly re-wokred tabs with new highlight color.
- Smaller icons to match the PC default sizes.
- Better themeing of addons, preferences, and all windows.
- Feed folder image updates
- Sidebar cleanup
- Right click menu backgrounds.
- New go button.
- Customize Toolbar sheet themed.
- New pop-up blocked icon.
- Smaller buttons
- All text fields rounded.
- New bookmark bar hover.
- Slight theme to feed page.
- All Mac loading spinner things.
- Error Page Edits
– Much More
It’s almost time, iPox for Firefox 2 is about to be released. If all goes well, I should submit it to Mozilla this week and, depending on how long the approval process is, it could be made public later this week.
So what’s new? Well I started over from scratch. Everything was re-done and more has been themed. I started with the PC default theme and so the buttons are smaller this time around. I hope that’s OK. A new status bar is also here and it’s just cleaner overall. So far, I’m very happy with how it’s turned out and am excited to release it.
Following up on my previous State of iPod for Firefox 2 post I thought I’d give everyone an update. Things are not going very well for iPox.
The tab bar is just not playing nice. We either have tabs and errors, or no tabs. So that’s no fun. iPox will not have the close button on each tab for a while yet and that drop down menu on the tab bar is also missing in action.
People have been asking about iPox for Firefox 2 for literally months now. So here is the status. It’s in progress.
I have updated the the install files and saw the freak out when Firefox 2 got a hold of it. I’ve started working out the issues and it’s not easy. So far I’ve un-themed more than I’ve fixed. The theme changes documentation isn’t perfect and by applying all the updates, it just makes iPox worse.
Firefox 2 is now in release candidate 2 so people are giving a whirl left and right. Even I’ve tried it but I’ll save my mini-review for later.
One issue that people have is that their extensions don’t work. Then they complain to the Firefox team which does no good. What you really need to do is contact the extension developers. It’s up to them to update their extensions, not the Firefox team.
For those that can’t wait for a developer to update their extension, you can do a few tricks to update Firefox extensions yourself. It’s not to hard and works great for those extensions that you can’t live without your favorite extensions.
