A new open-source nostalgia project lets you turn back the clock on web browser aesthetics. Silverfox is a custom theme for Mozilla Firefox ESR — a long-term support version of the famed browser — that recreates the classic look of Google Chrome from 2012. We’re talking trapezoid tabs, parallelogram new tab button, a pared back speed dial, bottom-based download bar, a custom-built hamburger menu (wrench icon optional), and Chrome’s classic (if tiny) window buttons (the browser didn’t use native GTK window controls until 2017). “Browsers age, good design doesn’t”, say the creators of this effort. Speaking as someone who blogged […]

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If you use the Papirus icon theme in Ubuntu you’ll be pleased to hear a new version is available to download. Papirus’s first update in 2024 adds more than 50 new and updated apps icons, plus a handful of other changes including updated icon names and symlinks, and removing a small collection of icons for apps which are no longer widely used/EOL. Among new apps covered in Papirus are multi-protocol backup tool Celeste, the nifty Logitech wireless utility Solaar, stat-packed system monitor app Mission Center, and Thunderbird beta builds. Iotas, Halftone, Upscayl, and Mini-Text are also newly covered by this […]

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