FirefoxIE - IE look and feel for Firefox

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FirefoxIE is a customization of Firefox 1.0 by Mozilla.org to make it look and feel more like Internet Explorer.

Important!
If you are upgrading, check the upgrade information link in the top menu bar and then follow the steps below.

If you would like to customize your existing Firefox installation or build it yourself, follow the steps below.

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Install Firefox

Step 1

Get Firefox 1.0 by Mozilla!

Once the file is downloaded, double-click the Firefox Setup 1.0.exe install file. By default, it will download to your Windows Desktop(main screen).

NOTE - Do not install Firefox 1.0 over the top of another Firefox installation.

For Firefox it is strongly recommended that you uninstall any previous version of Firefox first. Installing over the top of an older version may cause unpredictable problems.

It is strongly recommended you back up your bookmarks, uninstall your old version and do a fresh install. Instructions can be found under the Upgrade link on the top navigation menu bar.

Introduction to Firefox

Create FirefoxIE

Complete all steps. Restart Firefox after Step 2 and after Step 8.

Step 2

Install extensions then restart Firefox.

You need to restart now - write down this address: www.firefoxie.net
then close and reopen your browser. You must do this to complete all the steps.

More Extensions

Step 3

about:config Security Settings

Simply type in about:config (See Screenshot) into your browser's address bar.
Then search for and change these settings to TRUE
To change a value double click on it with your left mouse button
Then change the value and click on "OK" with your left mouse button

Screenshot

Recommended:
dom.disable_window_open_feature.location
dom.disable_window_open_feature.status*
dom.disable_window_open_feature.titlebar
dom.disable_window_status_change*

Optional:
dom.disable_window_move_resize
dom.disable_window_open_feature.close
dom.disable_window_open_feature.directories
dom.disable_window_open_feature.menubar
dom.disable_window_open_feature.minimizable
dom.disable_window_open_feature.personalbar
dom.disable_window_open_feature.resizable
dom.disable_window_open_feature.scrollbars
dom.disable_window_open_feature.toolbar

* set to "true" by default in the next release of Firefox

Step 4

Remove (unnecessary) padding to make toolbars more compact

Click here to select the code for Step 4 in the window below.
Use Ctrl+C to copy it to your clipboard.
From the Firefox menu, Select "Tools" then "Edit User Files" ( brings up ChromEdit)
Select the userChrome.css Tab
Use your mouse to position your cursor inside the box
Use Ctrl+V to paste the code into the userChrome.css box then click the save button

</form>
 
 
<a id="step5" name="step5">Step
5</a>
Display User Friendly Error pages
By default, Firefox displays annoying error messages if a
connection fails, instead of quietly displaying the error information in the
browser window as Internet Explorer does. To turn off the error messages and
use pages instead, add the following code to your User.js
file:
Click<a
href="javascript:selectText5()"> here</a>  to select the code for
Step 5 in the window below. 
Use Ctrl+C to copy it to your clipboard. 
From the Firefox menu, Select "Tools" then "Edit User Files" (
brings up ChromEdit) 
Select the User.js Tab 
Use your mouse to position your cursor inside the box 
Use Ctrl+V to paste the code into the User.js box then
click the save button
<form id="TheForm5" name="TheForm5">
<textarea
style="BORDER-RIGHT: rgb(0,0,128) 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: rgb(0,0,128) 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(0,0,128) 1px
solid; COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); BORDER-BOTTOM: rgb(0,0,128) 1px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(0,0,128)"
name="TheText5" rows="12" wrap="off" cols="55">
// Instead of annoying error dialog messages, display pages:
user_pref("browser.xul.error_pages.enabled", true);

Step 6

How to enable copy/paste in Mozilla/Firefox

An easier way to do it is this:

1. Open a new Tab with CTRL+T, and browse to 'about:config'.
2. Right click in the main area, select New->String.
3. Enter 'capability.policy.policynames'
4. Enter 'allowclipboard'

Repeat steps 2, 3 and 4 using the following pairs of values:

capability.policy.allowclipboard.sites  - http://www.firefoxie.net
capability.policy.allowclipboard.Clipboard.cutcopy  -  allAccess
capability.policy.allowclipboard.Clipboard.paste  - allAccess

Finally, exit the browser.

The 'about:config' window will not be updated to show your additions, but your pref.js file will be updated when you exit the browser. You can confirm this by browsing to your profile directory as indicated above,and opening the prefs.js file.

Step 7

Office XP Style Menus

Click here to select the code for Step 7 in the window below.
Use Ctrl+C to copy it to your clipboard.
From the Firefox menu, Select "Tools" then "Edit User Files" ( brings up ChromEdit)
Select the userChrome.css Tab
Use your mouse to position your cursor inside the box
Use Ctrl+V to paste the code into the userChrome.css box then click the save button

Step 8 (optional)

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Change Firefox's default window icon

Using the New Firefoxie Icon instead of the Firefox icon You can change Firefox's default window icon to any icon you want,by following these steps:

Go to the folder you installed Firefox in e.g. C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\
Then go to the subfolder chrome.
While in chrome, create a new subfolder called icons
Then go to that folder and create yet another subfolder called default

The full path to this folder could be

C:\Program Files\MozillaFirefox\chrome\icons\default\

Choose the icon you want to use
(on Windows use .ico files, on Linux use .xpm files)
and then place it in this folder and rename it to main-window.ico on Windows
and main-window.xpm on Linux.

In addition to the main window, you can also change the icon on the Bookmark Manager and JavaScript Console.

The icon names are bookmark-window.[ext] and jsconsoleWindow.[ext] respectively.

After this is done, restart Firefox and you should be able to see your chosen icon in the title of the browser windows.

Change Firefox's default titlebar text

Remember how you can change the product name that appears in the Firefox browser to anything you want?

Install the Firesomething http://www.cosmicat.com/extensions/firesomething/firesomething.xpi extension, and restart your browser.

Go to Tools -> Extensions and double-click on the Firesomething entry in the list. An options dialog should pop up.

Now, delete everything that's there using the Delete key.
(select multiple items by holding on to shift and clicking from start to end)

Enter FirefoxIE in the Vendors textbox and click Add.
Leave the Prefixes field empty.
Enter The Internet Is Fun Again in the Names textbox and click Add.

or you could...

Enter Microsoft in the Vendors textbox and click Add.
Leave the Prefixes field empty.
Enter Internet Explorer in the Names textbox and click Add.

Now click OK, then OK again to close both dialogs, and you'll be left with this in the title bar:

Change the window icon is from:http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/tips#app_icon

Show Pictures As They are Loading (IE Style)

This is a psychological thing more than anything else. By default, Firefox uses placeholder images by leaving image locations blank or with the white box and x combo. Changing this value will result in the load as it goes approach as with IE

Click here to select the code for this tweak in the window below.
Use Ctrl+C to copy it to your clipboard.
From the Firefox menu, Select Tools then Edit User Files" ( brings up ChromEdit)
Select the User.js Tab
Use your mouse to position your cursor inside the box
Use Ctrl+V to paste the code into the User.js box then click the save button

You need to restart now. Close and reopen your browser. You must do this to complete the installation and activate all the changes.

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