Fastest/Lightest/Smallest/Simplest Firefox themes

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I've found computers for free that are fast enough to run Firefox themes without breaking a sweat. What exactly are you running here, a Pentium 75?

[vasa1]

Originally Posted by guest

Of course, if I was on a new computer, I would be using IE9.

The computer specs were not mentioned at the outset. The version of Firefox to be used was not mentioned either.

Even now, we're left guessing.

I'm not sure of the motive of this thread.

Originally Posted by vasa1

The computer specs were not mentioned at the outset. The version of Firefox to be used was not mentioned either.

Even now, we're left guessing.

I'm not sure of the motive of this thread.

ROFL.

FYI it's latest Pale Moon 3.6 (custom-build of latest Firefox 3.6) and the system specs are here if you are so curious.

You and others can suggest Fastest/Lightest/Smallest/Simplest themes for Firefox 4+ if you want, it's not off-topic; I just told Basic that the Avant Garde theme he suggested doesn't work with Firefox 3.6.

More on the motives of the thread:

Originally Posted by Alfred Kayser

Large images do use more memory than smaller images. And as images use always 4 bytes per pixel, a 1M pixel image does use 4Megabyte memory. As firefox keeps one cache of images, for both content and chrome, means that if the chrome uses more memory, the content will get less of the memory cache. This also true for virtual, real and screen memory.

With the introduction of Cairo, Unix people (Linux part.) are complaining about the Xserver load causes by those images. There is even a specific bug (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364221) about slow scrolling of a page because of the large background image, with some very specific statistics.

And you are right that XUL itself has much more impact than the theme code/images. That is why every change they make to tabbrowsing, introducing new panels, etc always impact the performance so drastically.

And actually some people do use old machines and things like terminal servers which are really happy with my smaller themes.

To conclude:

Bottom line is, put the right images with the right code and all is well.

[vasa1]

I hope you don't mind my saying so, but IMO, you're requirements weren't properly laid out. Even in the first post, you've quoted without attribution. In that post you want a theme that'll work with the latest version.

Later on, you didn't specify which version you wanted the theme to work with. You just mentioned Avant Garde was for Fx 4+.

As for the quote, isn't much of it a truism? The larger the image, the more complex a page, the longer it will take to load ...

BTW, older computers will run Linux happily. I'm posting from Mint running on a pen drive

Nope, I want to see themes that work with latest version as well. I might upgrade to Pale Moon 5+ when Mozilla discontinues the 3.6 line.

It it is a truism or not, I won't discuss. The difference is measurable, even if small. If you don't want to participate providing relevant information (recommending themes), then just ignore this thread.