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1.4.1 Classic Theme Restorer 986 user reviews by Aris 453,189 users Squared tabs, appmenu, add-on bar, small button view and many more 'old' features for Firefox 29+ (Windows / MacOSX / Linux). Add to collection Share this Add-on All builds & changelogs on versions page!

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About this Add-on Add-on home page Support site This add-on restores squared tabs, the application button with application menu (known from Firefox for Windows), the add-on bar, bookmarks/history menu/sidebar buttons and other buttons. It moves star & feed Support E-mail buttons into location bar, adds status bar element to the ui and allows many items to be movable. All features Version 1.4.1 Info are fully optional. Some buttons have to be moved to toolbars manually using browsers 'customizing' mode. Last Updated: October 9, 2015 Main features (on options window) Released under Mozilla Public License, version 2.0

Tab appearance: squared classic tabs

Tab appearance: curved tabs (all colored and visible)

Tabs not on top + [tabsontop="false/true"] attribute

Tabs height settings

Tabs min/max-width settings

Tab title in Firefox titlebar

Tab loading animations

Tab close on all tabs, active tab, toolbars start/end

Custom 'new tab' page url (Firefox 41+)

Double click on tabs toolbar opens a 'new' tab [Windows only]

Hide tabs toolbar with one visible tab

Custom colors for tab backgrounds, text and text shadow

Custom tab separators

Application button on toolbars (+ icon variations)

Application button on titlebar [Windows only]

Custom title for application button on titlebar [Windows only]

Predefined/custom application button colors

Small navigation toolbar buttons

Movable back-forward buttons

Alternative appearance for about:preferences page

Open about:preferences page in a window (simulates a preference window)

Alternative about:add-ons (add-ons manager) appearance (Firefox 40+)

Show add-ons version number in add-ons manager (Firefox 40+)

Activity indicator (throbber) on toolbars

Bookmarks-star button in location bar

Rss-Feed button in location bar

Old Search ui for Firefox 43+ (CTR 1.4.1 beta 1+)

Movable status-bar panel

Additional location bar

Combine stop & reload buttons

Hide location bars stop, reload & go buttons

Hide private browsing mask

Findbar on top or bottom

'Icons & Text' and 'Text only' modes

Add [iconsize="large"]/[iconsize="small"] attributes to #nav-bar node

Compact panel menus (bookmarks, history...)

Green/blue site identity button for verified websites and secure connections

Replace context menu icons with labels (Back, Forward...)

Add up to 20 additional toolbars to to top browsers area

Restore empty favicon on tabs

Replace generic favicon (empty and dotted) with sheet favicon

Favicon in locations bars identity box (location bars left)

Different padlock icons

AeroBlue toolbar colors for Windows 8/XP/Classic, Linux, MacOSX

Hide navigation toolbar

Inverted (white) toolbar button icons

Toolbar settings to alter colors, sizes, borders

Disable some ui animations

Force some toolbars to appear in fullscreen mode

Remove title/menu/tabs toolbars background for Windows 10

Disable browsers Loop (chat), Reader & Pocket features

...and more

Features (not on options window)

Enable/disable 'Add-on Bar' (toolbar context menu)

Toggle 'Add-on Bar' using 'Ctrl + /' btw. 'Cmd + /'

Enable/disable 'Additional Toolbar' (toolbar context menu)

Spaces, Flexible spaces, Separators

Bookmarks menu & sidebar buttons

History menu & sidebar buttons

Additional movable reload & stop buttons

Movable urlbar container

Movable (Firefox main) menu button

Movable alltabs-button, webrtc-status-button, social-share-button

...and more

Squared tabs Default 'curved tabs' can be optionally replaced with classic 'squared tabs'. Tabs on MacOSX look more like Windows tabs with MacOSX colors on purpose.

Curved alternative tabs All tabs are curved and use colours known from squared tabs.

Tabs 'not' on top Simulates 'tabs.onTop=false' setting and moves tabs below navigation toolbar. On MacOSX tabs also get a 'reversed appearance'.

Application button / application menu settings

Application button on [Firefox] titlebar [Windows only] The titlebar button is fixed on titlebars left like on Firefox since version 4.0. It is enabled by default on Windows systems.

Application button on toolbars On toolbars the button appears like a default toolbar button.

Application button colours On titlebar and tabs toolbar the application button can be orange, blue (Aurora), black (Nightly), blue (Palemoon), red, green and gray in normal browsing mode and purple in private browsing mode like on previous Firefox versions.

Note The new appmenu is not an exact copy of the old one, but looks as original as possible. The 'splitmenu' will not be restored and the appmenu popup/submenus also miss some non-replicable menuitems.

Small navigation toolbar buttons Navigation toolbar buttons get alternative margins and paddings to simulate old 'small icon view'.

Hide 'Navigation Toolbar' Hiding navigation toolbar might be interesting after content got moved to other toolbars.

'Add-on Bar' A toolbar at the bottom of the window. All movable buttons and items can be placed on it. Add-on bar can be enabled/disabled using toolbars context menu (right-click on a toolbar) or using 'Ctrl + /' (Windows/Linux) btw. 'Cmd + /' (MacOSX).

'Additional Toolbar' A toolbar between navigation toolbar and bookmarks toolbar. It can be enabled/disabled using toolbars context menu (right-click on a toolbar).

Icons + text / text only mode Simulates old icons + text / text modes where text was displayed below toolbar buttons or button icons got hidden.

Bookmarks menu button A default 'menu button' which opens the 'classic' bookmarks menu. Positioned on bookmarks toolbar the button also displays its label.

Bookmarks and history sidebar buttons Buttons which toggle bookmarks and history sidebar.

Back-forward, reload and stop buttons Browsers default buttons got merged with urlbar and cannot be moved to different toolbar positions or to different toolbars. CTR adds duplicates of these buttons to the customization palette.

Combined reload-stop button Place reload button AFTER stop button and enable the corresponding option on CTRs preference window. Hovering the option on preference window to get extra information. Toolbar: [something]...[stop-button][reload-button]...[something]

Spaces, flexible spaces and separators These toolbar items appear in customizing mode and can be moved to toolbars like on previous Firefox versions.

Windows - Linux - MacOSX This add-on was tested on Windows 7 (AeroBasic, AeroGlass, Classic) & 8(.1) & 10 & XP (Classic, Luna- Blue/Silver/Olive, Zune, Royale), Linux Mint KDE, Ubuntu and MacOSX 10.8/10.9/10.10. On other Systems or non OS-default themes tab colors may look wrong. Bookmarks, history, stop, reload, back and forward toolbar buttons use default OS icons (Firefox Windows icons on Windows systems, Firefox Mac icons on MacOSX and Firefox Linux icons on Linux systems).

Info, known 'issues', 'glitches', problems 1) Application menus 'cut', 'copy' and 'paste' buttons do not always work like they should. 2) Switching between AeroGlass and AeroBasic on Windows 7/Vista can change application buttons position, if the menubar is disabled. Maximizing/restoring browsers main window or restarting Firefox resolves the problem. This glitch is caused by Microsoft Windows and titlebars behavior and not by this add-on. 3) Entering and leaving customizing mode 'disables' right-click menu items for bookmarks inside bookmarks menu button. A restart resolves this issue. 4) Tab colors on MacOSX fit to current ui instead of using Firefox 28 colors. This is intended and not a bug. 5) It is strongly recommended to remove Foxtab and Shareaholic before installing Firefox 29 or newer, because both add-ons break Firefox ui in Fx29+. Using Foxtab and/or Shareaholic with CTR causes even more errors, because CTR allows to move/remove more items than the default Firefox does. If one of these add-ons has corrupted the ui, the add-ons manager has to be accessed via menubar (right-click on a toolbar -> select menubar, Tools -> add-ons) and Shareaholic and Foxtab have to be uninstalled and CTR has to be disabled. After a browser restart, CTR can be enabled again. After another restart "restore defaults" in customizing mode has to be hit once.

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It is recommended to switch to a clean new profile or at least to trigger "Restore Defaults" in customizing mode to avoid UI issues after upgrading from Firefox 28 (and older) to Firefox 29 (and newer). Profile Switcher can help too.

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