January 23rd 2008

Simple Green Successor to Netstripe

Posted by Richard Klein

› tags: Navigator, Netscape, Netscape Messenger, Netscape Navigator, Netstripe, Simple Green, SimpleGreen, Theme

Netstripe was the Netscape Navigator theme we previously released for Firefox. The Netscape team is discontinuing our development of this theme and is disabling it from the Mozilla add-on website.

Sailfish, a long time theme editor and Netscape champion, has created with our approval the successor to the Netstripe theme. This new theme is called Simple Green.

Simple Green is a bundled theme containing both the browser (Navigator) and mailnews (Messenger) skins thus working for both Firefox and Thunderbird. It contains bug fixes and minor enhancement work. His plan is to support the theme through Firefox 2 and Thunderbird 2, at minimum.

The theme can be located on the Mozilla add-ons website or you can get it with all the latest changes from https://www.projectit.com/.

All bug reports, enhancement requests and questions should be sent directly to sailfish@unforgettable.com.

April 10th 2007

Netstripe: Netscape 9's Theme for Firefox

Posted by Chris Finke

› tags: addon, browser, netscape 9, netstripe, theme

Netscape 9 is on its way, but to tide you over until it gets here, we're releasing Netscape 9's theme (called Netstripe) as a separate add-on for Firefox. Here are some previews of the great work done by our designer, Andy Fraley. (You can install the theme by following the instructions at the end of this post.)

Figure 1: Theme preview image

Figure 2: Toolbar and tabs (click for full view)

Figure 3: Add-ons dialog

Figure 4: Bookmarks Manager

Netstripe is compatible with Firefox 2.0 through Firefox 2.0.0.*. To install the theme, you can either download it from Mozilla Addons or just complete the following steps:

1. If you are running Firefox on Windows, install the theme using this link:

Install Netstripe for Firefox 2 on Windows

If you are running Firefox on Mac OSX, use this link.

Install Netstripe for Firefox 2 on Mac

2. Restart Firefox after installing the theme.
3. Open the Addons Manager (Tools > Add-ons).
4. Click on the Themes tab.
5. Select Netstripe and press "Use Theme"
6. Restart Firefox.

On a separate note, we've been alerted that there are files out there masquerading as "leaked" versions of Netscape 9. You can be sure that Netscape 9 has not been leaked, and when it is available, the only legitimate (and safe) place to get it will be browser.netscape.com.