A reson for why I love Firefox...

Today I've discovered the great Safari Theme for Firefox by Ran Aroussi and obviously I've decided to download the .jar and to install it.

The installation was ok, but when was the time to restart Firefox to apply the new setting.... crash!!! Firefox was unable to restart for a missing component and the browser screen was totally white and unusable.

So... what to do? Uninstall Firefox and restart with a fresh installation? No no no, remember that this is Firefox!

So, I've opened the folder where Firefox stores all the user settings (on my system C:\Documents and Settings\Stefano\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\default.o3g) and I've opened the prefs.js file with Notepad.

On this file you can find all the user preferences. Just go to the line related to the skin configuration:

user_pref("general.skins.selectedSkin", "SkinName");

(where SkinName is the name of the current skin) and change the name of the wrong skin with your previous skin. When you restart Firefox all is ok...

Print | posted on Friday, April 15, 2005 9:28 PM

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# Re: A reson for why I love Firefox...

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Ha! Same thing happened to me, except I just deleted the line and it went back to the default skin
Left by Christopher on Apr 16, 2005 5:46 AM

# re: A reson for why I love Firefox...

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Yes, maybe deleting the line is the best choice to do if you don't remember the previous skin name
Left by Stefano Demiliani on Apr 16, 2005 11:19 AM

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