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Old October 6th, 2006, 09:58 PM
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This Is Atrocious!

Why in the world would anyone want to turn their beautiful Mac interface into an ugly-ass Windows Netscape interface?! I almost retched when I saw this:

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3471/previews/
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Old October 6th, 2006, 10:08 PM
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It's not just for OS X, all versions of FireFox. This is best summed up by a comment found on the page:
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This reminds me how ugly Windows 3.1 was.
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We forget about all the crashes and conflicts in Windows, using this theme will make you think back to the good 'ol days.
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Old October 7th, 2006, 09:40 AM
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I guess some people just have too much time on their hands.
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All great replies! lol
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It's not just for OS X, all versions of FireFox. This is best summed up by a comment found on the page:


We forget about all the crashes and conflicts in Windows, using this theme will make you think back to the good 'ol days.
Hey, Windows 3 was just fine for me. ... at least the version I ran under OS/2 2.1 ...
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