How to Make Firefox Use Windows Vista theme in Windows XP

I Personally don’t like the Firefox 3 theme for Windows XP in fact the windows vista’s Firefox theme looks much better and I badly wanted to change my theme to that of vista’s but I don’t like to use third party themes with my browser as they can slow down my browser, I came across this post on how-to geek and ever since I have been using the vista theme in Firefox and it looks just great and doesn’t slows down the browser unlike other third party themes because this theme is integrated in Firefox by default and you just need to activate it.

To use this theme you just have to copy paste a file in your Firefox’s application data folder and restart Firefox that’s it

Complete Steps:

Close Firefox Completely and make sure that it is properly closed by looking up Firefox.exe in the Task Manager

Then download this zip archive and extract it

Now open the folder where you extracted the files and browse to Strata\Aero

copy the classic.manifest file from here and paste in the X:\\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\chrome (X is the drive where windows is installed) either by manually browsing to that folder or by Going to start–>run and typing:

%programfiles%\Mozilla Firefox\chrome

*remember to backup the current classic.manifest file by renaming it to something like classic.manifest.bak

That’s it, You are done!

Now Open Firefox and feel the freshness

Some of the Changes that you will see After changing the theme:

The vista like back/forward buttons, bookmark button and few new buttons

vista like close tab button

bookmark dialogue with a yellowish background

Glowing arrows in bookmark menu

To revert back to The default theme (arghh) close Firefox completely and delete the new classic.manifest file and restore the backup you created by renaming it back to classic.manifest

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