I still remember those old days when I was confused about the web browsers. I had a very limited knowledge about what browsers exactly was, but again I knew the browser dominance battle between Netscape (which enjoyed a majority share) and Internet Explorer. Netscape was a more elegant browser and hands down the better overall program on its early versions. It wasn’t until years later that IE took over while Netscape remained stagnant and slowly faded away.

At those times the modems were 28.8k modems and the eternal wait that took for opening graphic-intensive sites, and it took a lot of time loading the buttons…

Netscape Static Throbber Netscape Animated Throbber 2
All I wanted is skin your fully-stable and secure Firefox browser to look like the old Netscape. Because Firefox is completely skinnable and there is a huge community behind it, you won’t even have to mess around with any files, I picked the three best Netscape themes from the official add-on site for you to try out:

  • Foxscape: This is by far my favorite, resembles the looks of the old Netscape 4.8 that uses the throbber (loading) buttons you see above.
  • Modern Aluminum: This is a port of Netscape 7.x, all silver buttons with a more subtle look.
  • Netstripe: This is a new official skin developed by the guys behind the new Netscape 9 beta browser. It’s a very nice greenish theme, and a good excuse not to try the actual Netscape 9 browser that also uses the Mozilla (Firefox) code as a base.

If you want to change (only) the throbber (that is the name given to the “loading” circle displayed by default on Firefox), you can simply create your own JPEG/GIF files and you can make Firefox to use those instead. Here is a good guide on how to do that and yet another link for an already coded add-on that adds a spinning Firefox logo. Enjoy the best of all browsers Firefox like I am doing. :)

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