Hi, I'm Dan Cunningham

Recently Mozillia updated their legendry browser that is known as Firefox. Low and behold its brought some really cool new additions, but with this they’ve decided to change the entire look and feel to the browser. Somewhat Im not really digging it’s feel and wanted to downgrade back to 3.* after only a few days.

Until i did a bit of looking around in the settings…

Firefox 4, The new look…

So Firefox 4 looks like this…

As you can see, New orange button in the top left, Which may i add is annoying, as this is where all the options are for the browser e.g Tools, Bookmarks etc…
The tabs bar is now abovethe address bar, which is also highly annoying as Im so used to that being below the address bar.

Firefox 3, The target look.

The Firefox 3 browser looks more like this (see below) and thats the look and feel that Im aiming for with Firefox 4.

How to Make Firefox 4 look like Firefox 3

So… Lets look at making it look like Firefox 3!

Launch Firefox 4 and install the Firefox 3 Theme for Firefox 4 add-on.

Of course a restart will be required to complete the process… (as always with new plugins!)

Next, Right-click an empty area to the right of a tab and click on Customize.

In the Customize Toolbar screen click on Restore Default Set

Right-click an area to the right of a tab again and check Menu Bar.

That gets rid of the Firefox Menu button and replaces it with the Menu Bar like in Firefox 3, Now we’re cooking on gas!

Click on View >> Toolbars and check the Add-on Bar.

Go back to View >> Toolbars then turn off Tabs on Top.

Another thing you might need to do is go back into Customize Toolbar and move the Home icon from the right side of the screen to the left.

And That’s all there is to it! Now you have Firefox 4 with all it’s under the hood benefits, but it looks like Firefox 3 which may be more familiar for you.
What do you think? Do you like the new layout of Firefox 4 or would you rather have it look like Firefox 3? Leave me a comment below and let us all know!