For the South Hemisphere and tropical countries it is not even cold, so white Christmas happens only on TV, movies and books…

… and Firefox. Here are three beautiful themes to make it snow on your desktop.

Xmas, by Matt Coxwell, my current favorite. It is an experimental theme so you will need a Mozilla Add-ons account to get the cute snowy roofs.

Tinseltown, another classic theme by Twister Mc.

Winter Holiday Christmas, developed by Brand Thunder, is technically an extension that includes a useless toolbar with links to Amazon, a few Last.fm stations, and evite. At least you can hide the toolbar and keep the well done theme.

Enjoy!

Firefox 3 introduced tighter OS integrating across all platforms, and even different Strata (Windows theme) flavors for Windows XP and Vista. However the result was not optimal and there is room to make Firefox feel more native.

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As you may know, Firefox 3 introduces three different themes for all the officially supported operating systems: Firelight on Mac OS X, Tango on Linux, and Strata on Windows, which even comes in XP and Vista variations to better blend with Luna and Aero respectively.

If you are feeling envious of what the other platform or style got or just want to try a different look and have a couple of minutes to spare, you may want to give these themes a try.

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Irish around the globe celebrate today Saint Patrick’s Day, a celebration of Ireland’s patron on the date of his death. According to the legend, Saint Patrick coined the clover as a Christian symbol of the Holy Trinity and that explains why things get very green these days.

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In preparation for Firefox 3 Beta 3 release, Mozilla has finally landed today the updated icons for Windows XP, Vista and Mac OS X. On Mac OS X, the landing is actually the addition of the Proto theme in development for a couple of months now as the default them for Firefox 3.

For Windows XP and Vista, we can finally see the result of the changes announced a while ago and the icons commissioned to Iconfactory. Read the rest of this entry »

Here are ten Firefox themes for web savvy children to enjoy this holiday vacation.

1. Super Mario Galaxy is here but you know how it all started. This Super Mario Bros. 3 theme gets you closer to Mario origins. (*)

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Fans of the cute Mozilla Japan mascot, Foxkeh, will be glad to know that the little firefox is back again with a full Foxkeh Firefox theme. Read the rest of this entry »

Christmas is approaching fast and you can customize Firefox to match your spirit is many fun ways.

If you are really impatient and want to get even more, get Countdown Clock, a Firefox extension developed by Frederic Mercille that lets you set a target date and add a countdown clock to Firefox’s status bar. You can customize words to put before or after the actual remaining time and a message to display the big day.

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A new Firefox theme inspired by the recent Transformers movie has just been released. The theme reproduces the massive destruction the movie is in large part about on Firefox’s default theme with severely damaged icons and buttons all around the main, Options and Bookmarks windows.

The author even provides instructions to further customize the theme replacing the default red Autobout emblem with the Decepticon’s or silver versions of both.

While it’s not an official version as The Simpsons’ theme is, this will certainly take some of the fun out of the screen and into your daily surfing.

The Transformers theme is still under development and my only complaint is the background images when hovering over the toolbar buttons.

To install it, download the 1.5 MB .jar file from the Firefox Transformers Theme web site. Then drag the downloaded file to Firefox Add-on manager (Tools menu, Add-ons). Make sure to select it and press Use Theme in the Themes tab and then restart Firefox to apply the new theme.