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Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

How to install a Firefox theme from a .jar file?

I just found a really nice-looking Edge theme for Firefox... The thing is, it's in a .jar file. I know Thunderbird is able to install themes from .jar files, but Firefox doesn't seem to have that functionality... So: how do I install this thing? Where do I put the file?

ozar

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From: USA

Registered: 2005-02-18

Posts: 1,686

Re: How to install a Firefox theme from a .jar file?

Download .jar file to a temporary location, then from the Firefox Tools menu, select Themes, then just drag/drop the .jar file into the themes list in the Themes Manager.

That should do it.   

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tranxene

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From: France

Registered: 2005-02-26

Posts: 13

Re: How to install a Firefox theme from a .jar file?

May be Desktop Environments is not the appropriate place to post this, but this thread fits 100% to my concern:
I'm about trying the same thing. But how to drag/drop without a desktop environment? Copying the content of the .jar file into the mozilla user directory doesn't work neither.
I couldn't find a solution to this problem on the whole www and it would be nice to get it here.

Edit: As makeshift I found an extension to install locally themes and extensions:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/421/

karc

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From: Poland

Registered: 2006-08-12

Posts: 36

Re: How to install a Firefox theme from a .jar file?

Recently i copied .jar file containing new icons for firefox2 to ~/.mozilla/firefox/[your profile].default/extensions , and after restarting ff it automagically installed package.

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