Step 1: The Theme
The first thing we need is an Internet Explorer Theme. The best one that's currently updated for Firefox 2.0 is the Looks Familiar theme over at addons.mozilla.org:
- Install the Looks Familiar theme
- Select to use the theme and restart Firefox for the changes to take effect
The next thing we need are window icons that look like Internet Explorer's:
- Download the Firefox Internet Explorer Icons Pack and unzip it to your Firefox program directory (typically C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\ for regular Firefox of PortableApps\FirefoxPortable\App\firefox for Firefox Portable). It will create the necessary directories within the chrome directory and copy the icons to them.
- Restart Firefox for the changes to take effect
Note: To uninstall the icons, just delete the icons directory within the chrome directory in your Firefox program directory.
Step 3: The Toolbar Layout
The next thing we need to do is to adjust the layout of the buttons on the toolbar to mimic Internet Explorer:
- Right-Click on the toolbar and select Customize
- Click Add New Toolbar and call it Address Toolbar
- Drag the address bar and Go button from their normal position onto the new (blank) Address Toolbar
- Drag the Search Box off of the toolbar onto the buttons window to remove it
- Drag the stop button to the left of the refresh button
- After the Home button, place a seperator,then the Bookmarks button, then the History button, then another seperator, then the print button
You should now have a Toolbar that looks like this:
Step 4: Window Title
If you wish to complete the look and change the application from Mozilla Firefox to Microsoft Internet Explorer, just follow these steps:
- Install the Firesomething 1.8 Extension and restart Firefox
- Go to the Firesomething options window (Tools - Addons - Extensions - Firesomething - Options)
- Delete all the Vendors, Prefixes and Names (right-click Select All, right-click delete in each field)
- Enter Microsoft in Vendors and click Add (or enter Mozilla for fun)
- Enter Internet Explorer in Names and click Add
- Check off "Use the same generated name in..." and click OK
- Close the extensions window
There ya go, Firefox now, is IE (As much as I HATE to say it)
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