Top 11 Mozilla Firefox themes

It's been quite a while since we visited the subject of best themes for Mozilla Firefox. It took a little while for some developers to catch up with the release of Version 2, but now there's a sizable number of cool add-ons for spicing up the look and feel of your your browser. There's also a lot of crap. Luckily for you, I've waded through the morass and found what I consider to be the best themes for Mozilla Firefox. Of course, one of the greatest strengths of Firefox is the ability for every user to customize the browser as he or she sees fit. If you've got a favorite theme that I left off the list, tell me about it in the comments. For a better look at the themes featured in this article, make certain to check out the related Download.com gallery. 11. Modern Modoki Modern Moloki theme Minimalism lives, and quite naturally with this stone-gray theme that's perfect for the Web surfer or developer who wants his or her browser to fade into nonexistence. It's clean, it's clear, hey...it's Netscape 8! Or is it 6? It's both: The look of 8 with the color scheme of versions 6 and 7. Its nigh invisibility makes it a solid choice for the mysterious 11th spot. Most importantly, of course, it works with most major Firefox extensions with interface-altering features including the pictured two-paned bookmarks and All-in-One Sidebar. 10. NASA Night Launch NASA Night Launch theme What an appropriate Firefox theme to get started on off the Top 10 countdown! It's not kicking off the list, but it's blasting off anyway. The only thing that really distinguishes this theme from other polished dark Firefox themes is the shuttle image that "launches off" when a page is loading. See, you're traveling to another planet on the World Wide Web universe! Snark aside, the shuttle imagery throughout the browser looks fantastic, and it's compatible with a long set of extensions. It's also a nice tribute to the STS-116 mission. 9. MidnightFox MidnightFox If you're gonna go dark, do it with style. I'm usually not much of a fan of black-background Firefox themes, but MidnightFox is a rare exception. The colorful buttons look great on the textured black interface, but sadly it didn't work very well with All-in-One Sidebar, one of my favorite extensions. It still surprised me enough with its fancy look to make it on the list. 8. Super Mario Bros. 3 Super Mario Bros. 3 theme For the Mario fanboy in everyone, live the dream with tunnels for toolbar icons and pipes for scrolling. A recognizable little penny spins and spins as your Web pages load, but there's not much sign of the big man himself, and not a whole lot of polish. All I can say is: needs more Yoshi. 7. extero extero theme I like the brand-new theme extero because it's not afraid to take chances--like black drop-down menus on a near-white interface. Some of the menu icons, such as "Print," are a little cryptic, but its Apple-esque style should prove popular. The main reason it makes the list, however, is its "throbber," or the icon that animates while a Web page is loading. extero's is the coolest throbber I've seen this year...the coolest ever maybe. 6. HiVisGnome Jumbo