[Companion] Buttons enlarged using Firefox 0.9.all

[Brian Erst]

Jim -

Here is my original post in re: button size.

--- Brian Erst <azzipsderf-companion at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Jim -
> 
> This is an artifact of the new Winstripe theme - it defaults to
> larger
> ("thicker") button bars. The button themselves are the same size -
> they
> simply "float" on a thicker bar. It's been widely discussed in the
> Firefox forums as one of the bad aspects of the theme, and there are
> a
> couple of hacks to the Winstripe chrome to snug up the button bars. 
> 
> If you look at "laketrout"'s message on this page:
> 
> http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=82732&start=165
> 
> he gives a way to tighten up the chrome.
> 
> Another (much easier) way to do it is to use Arvid's Qute theme:
> 
> http://update.mozilla.org/themes/moreinfo.php?id=7
> 
> It's the original (pre 0.9x) theme for Firefox and it has the proper
> spacing for toolbars.
> 
> The author of the Winstripe theme seems well aware of the toolbar
> issue, but doesn't seem to care (he rationalizes this as a WinXP
> issue
> in his weblog when it is clearly an easily fixed "bug" in his theme).
> 
> The big question I have is - how did you get the 0.52 Companion to
> work
> properly in Firefox 0.9x? Until my verticle orientation hack (which
> makes the menubar REALLY big and ugly), I didn't know anyone who
> could
> get 0.52 to work (the menu-buttons would be buttons plus separate
> menus, and the button part didn't work).
> 
> --- Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> > When running Firefox 0.8, the companion buttons were small, the
> same
> > size 
> > as the toolbar above it with Firefox help, Support, etc.
> > 
> > With 0.9 (and 0.9.1 and 0.9.2), the companion buttons are about 40%
> 
> > bigger.  Any way to reduce their size?
> > 
> > Thanks - Jim
> > 
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