Firefox not properly skinned.

Hi everybody,

I am trying to skin Firefox to match my openSUSE 11.2 desktop. However, no matter what skin is used, the entire browser is never fully covered. Below are screenies of my Plasma desktop and Firefox, each with two different looks (is there an “attach” function anywhere, by chance, that I’m missing? I thought that there might be, like in Ubuntu Forums, but I can’t find any).

It doesn’t affect the capabilities of the browser, it’s just very distracting (and a bit of an eyesore) when your whole browser is black and the address bar is white or the only way to tell what’s in the address bar is by highlighting the text within.

Thanks for any assistance,
Matt.

http://i46.tinypic.com/11gkpvo.png
My current desktop.

http://i49.tinypic.com/2e3d5hk.png
The Address Bar clearly isn’t skinned properly here.

http://i46.tinypic.com/35mnv2r.png
The default-themed openSUSE 11.2 desktop.

http://i48.tinypic.com/2ls8zrs.png
This is supposedly the Oxygen theme for Firefox, but all the buttons look like they’re from '98 or some older Windows OS (dull, grey, square).

Hmm, I will try these themes out myself.
What theme are you using in the first screenshot?

Yeh you are right, its not theming right with some of the themes on the firefox website.
Dont know why, but its an odd issue.

A bug, perhaps?

You found out what theme I was using, yes? Oxygen Plasma theme, the Aurora wallpaper (go to Desktop Settings->Picture->get more wallpapers or something like that). Great combo, looks beautiful even on my laptop’s 15-inch screen with 1280x800 resolution.

Firefox’s theme I believe is “Black Steel”.

Strangely enough, the latest Windows Firefox in Wine looks a lot better… hmm… maybe I should see if I can upgrade Firefox? The openSUSE repositories aren’t as up-to-date as the download from Mozilla, am I correct? Just like Ubuntu…

O.o

Wow.

I just tried skinning Firefox in Wine, and… well, look at the result.

http://i46.tinypic.com/ve5hsy.png

Next update will be after I try the latest Firefox straight from Mozilla.

No openSUSE has firefox 3.5.5, the most recent release.
The wallpaper you have dont matter, the firefox theme does as possibly your GTK theme.

Well, strange, when I downloaded the Firefox from Mozilla, it’s the exact same version but skins around the address bar like it should.

Did I perhaps change a setting…?

No, I do not think so…

well then it might be a bug in the opensuse version, might be from the modifications opensuse does to its packages.
I dunno

huh.

Oh, well. Might as well use the Wine version or the Mozilla Firefox for now, see if it fixes itself.

Uh…

Dumb question, but… how exactly do you “install” the Mozilla firefox? I know how to run it from the “firefox” file

/home/matthew/Download/Firefox/firefox

but not how to actually install it on openSUSE and create a .desktop file.