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For Firefox users who go lean with toolbars (and New Tab King…)

Eddie — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:24:02 +0000

A couple of folks approached us and asked how to turn off the New Tab King toolbar icon we added in the latest version (2.1.2). It’s basically in the Settings of the add-on (see screeshot here) – adding quick and detailed instructions here:

New Tab King options: toolbar button

From the top right of the add-on screen click on “Options…”
Select the “General” tab at the top of the settings dialog
Uncheck the checkbox labeled as: “Check for the New Tab King toolbar button on every Firefox restart“
Right click on the toolbar and choose Customize - remove the little NTK button from your toolbar
Restart!

So you want to do your own theme? (New Tab King for Firefox 2.1.2 is officially out)

admin — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:32:21 +0000

Our latest version went officially public yesterday at the Mozilla Add-on portal. We’re super excited about this and hope existing and new folks would enjoy it – keep us posted with feedback as always – we promise a quick response.

One of the key features of the recent release is the 7 built-in themes with New Tab King. We hope one of these themes is a good fit with you but also feel like advanced folks would rather have their own personal touch. Here’s a quick recipe for that:

go to your themes directory (just replace with your Windows user name where in bold): C:\Users\[your user name]\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\tuf7wn2a.default\extensions\{FC5BAC7D-D696-4ba6-B913-CF8F000C33DF}\chrome\content\themes
Open one of the newtabking-theme-x.css files
Change the very few CSS attributes according to your taste! here’s an example from the built-in Beautiful Eyes theme:

Links: a {color:#980100} .timezone{color:#980100} .timezoneSelected{background-color:#980100} } .shareSites {color:#980100}
Borders: hr{background:#cacaca ;color:#cacaca ;}
Sidebar: div#sidebox {background:#e2e2e1; border-left:1px #cacaca solid; } div#box2{ background:#e2e2e1; } div#box4{ background:#e2e2e1; }div#box5{ background:#e2e2e1; }
Main view histogram bars: .chartlist .index{ background:#e2e2e1; border:#cacaca 1px dotted} .chartlist .indexShare{ background:#e2e2e1; border:#cacaca 1px dotted;}
Main view boxes and opacity: div#box{ opacity:0.85 } div#box3{ opacity:0.85 } body{ background:#FEFEFE url(‘Beautiful eyes.jpg’) no-repeat}

Hopefully this is not too complex for the brave design-savvy out there. Let me know if you need some help.
–eddie

Tekzilla Daily: Patrick Norton gets excited about New Tab King for Firefox

admin — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 08:19:51 +0000

Patrick – appreciate the terrific review. We’d be honored to have you on the front page of