Firefox Theme Gnome: What the Heck Does this Mean?

Amie

Amie

Mac Convert for Life
I have the Gnome FF theme, which I love ... but I have a question. In the description it says: "To use this theme's full capabilities, move the search field up to the menu bar." What the heck does that mean? I've tried customizing my toolbar and moving stuff around. I don't see any difference. And the search box (bar?) where you type in URLs will not MOVE up to the menu bar. That's crazy. What are they talking about??? And what sort of "capabilities" are there that I'm not experiencing?
 
Thank you minckster, I was looking for 'Gnome FF' myself - wondering just where it was.

So maybe, once Amie provides an actual URL to some particular 'Gnome's web page, we can all view the description ...
 
In FF for Windows, I tired moving the search field (box..? whatever) to the same toolbar as "File | Edit | ... | Help" and it is possible. That must be what the theme developer means. I suppose doing so opens up room for more icons on the navigation toolbar. Perhaps it makes even more sense in FF for Linux / Gnome. (Assuming the menu bar is all by its lonesome in the default layout. I've moved things around so much that I can't remember.)

Barhar, I figured others were having the same difficulty that I did in finding the exact themes in question, so I posted the result of googling "To use this theme's full capabilities, move the search field up to the menu bar."
 
Again, thank you minckster. I missed the "To use this ... up to the menu bar." on the web page provided by you.

'In FF for Windows, I tired moving the search field to the same toolbar as "File | Edit | ... | Help" and it is possible. That must be what the theme developer means.' - I agree with you.

To Amie - you can not move the 'Gnome' provided search field to Apple's menu bar; nor do you lose any of the theme's full capabilities.
 
I know I can't move it! That's the problem. lol But the Web sites SAYS to move it. Doesn't make sense. Why would it say to do something that can't be done?
 
The 'Gnome' creator was referring to the tool (menu) bar on a 'Windoze' platform window.

Unlike on the Mac, in 'Windoze' each window contains a tool (menu) bar with 'File', 'Edit', etc.
 
Remember, Firefox extensions and themes are not platform-specific. The Mac is the only OS that uses a system-wide menu bar. Everything else has menus anchored to individual windows (because Apple patented the system-wide bar).
 
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