♪ Unified Toolbar/Titlebar for Mac Firefox
By combining GrApple with UNO you can actually have the “unified” look in Firefox on the Mac. GrApple is a skin for Firefox and UNO is a program that makes all of your applications have the unified toolbar/titlebar look. Looks like the UNO version of the GrApple skin takes advantage what UNO does to the titlebar and applies a complementary color scheme to the Firefox toolbar.
I can think of two better ways to do this, neither of which I have seen implemented. (1) Hack only Firefox (or your XUL app) the same way UNO hacks the system as a whole and also provide the complimentary skinning for the toolbar. (2) A skin that removes the system chrome and replaces it with “fake” chrome that looks “unified.”
This second method seems the best to me, but it is beset by a few challenges. First, hidechrome=true is not supported on Mac. Also, faking Mac OS chrome would require knowing how to draw the window’s widgets (close, minimize, etc.) the look and feel of which are determined by the Appearance System Preferences.
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