I just wanted to say that I really appreciate that the VMs you are recording are in a lower resolution (and not 1920 x 1080), so the video is much easier to watch on mobile screens :)
i can now officially say i appeared on a micheal mjd video im so proud of bruni and all of the contributors and this entire project ❤ (im in the contributors list at the start of the video, helped with some localizing in geckium)
I can't say I have been using Firefox since day 1, but I can just about say that I've been there almost the whole time and still using it today. It's been a good browser. Good video! Keep up the awesome work!
The original Google Chrome theme is still my favourite and i'm glad it's back with Geckium. It's also fitting since i had to switch back to Firefox thanks to Google's effort of getting rid of Manifest 3. It looks even more fantastic with the Mint-X theme on Linux!
Even though I hardly remember 2014 myself since I was 5 at the time, I really like doing this too and still do have memories of that year and somewhat of how the internet used to look!
Oh my God, I am so happy!!! Thank you so much for covering Geckium, I did not expect a video on it and especially this early. This video was so much fun to watch and it covered all its important features :D (By the way, you can edit the toolbar layout to remove the gaps by right clicking the toolbar -> "Customize Toolbar...") As for the Microsoft Edge theme missing the extension, I have absolutely no clue how that happened (I just tried downloading the same theme and it worked fine xd), I guess something went wrong when requesting the file somehow. Again, thank you so much, this made me really happy :P
geckium is pretty good. i actually replaced my own chrome-inspired theme with it since it retains firefox features (which was what i wanted with my theme). props to the contributors for making geckium possible.
ever since Firefox had their latest UI refresh, it and Chrome really do look very same-ish to me, so I was surprised to see someone going out of their way to make an extension like this. that being said, it is quite impressive to which lengths they go to emulate older Chrome interfaces on different OS's and even make themes from other browsers usable with Firefox!
Very nice, I never thought you were going to drop a video about this but here we are! I also use Geckium on my computers too by the way, I really miss when Google Chrome had trapezoid tabs.
I think it is a good idea to make people use firefox even more. In my case, I use it on both desktop and mobile and this kind of projects are not something I would use. But.... I know people that can benefit from it. Thanks for sharing!
i'm so happy you reviewed geckium on your channel! i was one of the closed beta testers and the guy who created geckium-tan, the geckium-tan themes and translated most of geckium to pt-BR lol
Oh... My. God. Just today I was switching from chrome to Firefox because of the manifest v3 nonsense breaking some extensions I need, plus ad block, of course. And then this video comes out. Just perfect timing
Nice touch with the "arch, by the way" in the list of supported distros xD Interesting project, might help some folks migrate to a browser that still fully supports ad blocking.
This is an amazing mod, but I heartily await the day we get a mod for Firefox that gives it the old Windows-native UX. I’m very fond of everything on my desktop looking like a native OS application, and Google Chrome has always gotten my goat in a way for standing out like a sore thumb.
Does something like this exist for the latest version of Firefox but for making it look like all the different versions of Internet Explorer on Windows 10? I know there's ways to theme FF around IE but idk exactly what others are doing/using to do it though.
I always loved the older design of chrome and stopped using it recently just because the ui keeps getting worse and worse so its awesome I can use the old styles on a modern browser again
@@SDK104 That's exactly it! It's why this project was made in Firefox instead :) Vivaldi (which is Chromium based) allows for UI mods, but it's not as good as Firefox's freedom.
Oh, I realised I am using Chrome since 2009 July! On 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015 era I would install a previous version to revert the UI and would try to find to disable updates. It was so hard to adapt for me.
I'd never expected Firefox to celebrate its anniversary I wasnt really a big fan of it as i mostly used Chrome but due to their ram eating processes had to switch to windows' default browser Its strange to see Firefox get turned onto Chrome through third party files and other
There's a project called Betterfox. It is just a file that changes the about:config settings (Firefox version of Chrome Flags), but there's a file called Smoothfox which shows a bunch of codes that you can change
I like the Chrome 58 option the most because it detects my tab selection when I put my mouse cursor at the evry top of the screen. I wish that was an option on all of the different versions.
Oh, that's... definitely not intentional. What's your Firefox? Is it a fork? And what is the version? All tabs should be easily selectable, I can't replicate that issue but I hope I can solve that issue soon with information that people give me.
But Brave is Chromium and Chromium is Google. And Google is bad. You get it 😀? Does not make sense to many people, for me it does. But Geckium doesn't. Don't why a browser has to "look" like another browser. Firefox is fine as it is.
Because there's a kind of demand for those old-ish stuff. There's people that theme their OS to make it look like an older one (for example those people that are theming Windows 10 to make it look like Windows 7) so this kind of themes are here to complete the overall. Some themes are very well made, to the point you can barely distinguish if the OS you see is effectively the one it pretends to be. I've seen a Windows 10 LTSC once that was themed to mimic Vista so convincing that if I didn't knew Vista UI like the back of my hand to find the little hidden detail that betrays everything (an OpenGlass' bug that doesn't render a window frame texture correctly), I could have totally believed it. There's also some people that are simply nostalgic from those times. Or the people that liked older UIs rather than the current ones (sometimes described as "bland" or "ugly") This is the three main reasons I see someone use a such theme for their browser. It can bring the old UI without having to use the 10-year-old version that have it back then, without compromising security nor compatibility.
@@jordananderson8299 Because we're working upwards - the plan is to ultimately reach MD3 Chrome too in terms of design selection after Geckium has its first stable release.
@@ambientNexus A feature to attempt reduce tracking on ads. This feature goal is to only send the necessary data to allows advertisement companies to still be able to make ad measurements without having to track down users. The main reason this was badly received is because Mozilla introduced that feature as opt-out (enabled it by default but can be disabled) and also doesn't really explained what its purpose. Also this being done in collaboration with Meta. Also, this with the recent arrival of Mozilla in the advertisement market to try being independent from Google's funding also didn't helped.
Prince was right the internet is dead, it went from being a secondary library to it being purely transactional, I forgot how much data browsers aren't supposed to track or acquire but still do.
The video was cool, as usual, thank you 🙂. But I don't get it. Why? Just because it's fun and possible? Sorry, really, I don't get it. For sure my bad, but the Firefox bars are fine, especially when you reduce them to a minimum like I do (no bookmarks, no extra bars, just tabs on top and address bar with navigation below it). Two gray bars, the rest is the currently shown website 🙂. Especially when you can't run any new version without checking if the skin allows it, it's a killer. I never think about any updates. Arch does everything on a daily basis, a few plugins are installed and Firefox is working since over 2 years (setup of this workstation) without any wasted thought day by day.
I suggest to take a look to those little communities that spend their time to create old lookalike versions of popular services (like a website that replicates the 2013 RUclips, old Twitter, etc.)
Because theming has always been a thing since the beginning of UI operating systems and I'm glad the community is still going strong and porting back beautiful UIs from the late 2000s. I also use Arch Linux on Cinnamon Desktop and it has the original Mint-X theme from 2014, so Geckium fits really well with it!
I just wanted to say that I really appreciate that the VMs you are recording are in a lower resolution (and not 1920 x 1080), so the video is much easier to watch on mobile screens :)
Yeah right? I can watch MJD in public and read it normally
They are being recorded at 1080p. He probably increased the scaling.
@@eeriemyxi nope, the screen resolution is about 1280x720 or 1366x768 for the vm, and 1920x1080 for the host machine (which is the one recording)
laughs in revanced
@@f5203 what does revanced have to do with not seeing small text and stuff on a small-ish phone screen?
i can now officially say i appeared on a micheal mjd video
im so proud of bruni and all of the contributors and this entire project ❤
(im in the contributors list at the start of the video, helped with some localizing in geckium)
wow congrats!
I can't say I have been using Firefox since day 1, but I can just about say that I've been there almost the whole time and still using it today. It's been a good browser. Good video! Keep up the awesome work!
The original Google Chrome theme is still my favourite and i'm glad it's back with Geckium. It's also fitting since i had to switch back to Firefox thanks to Google's effort of getting rid of Manifest 3. It looks even more fantastic with the Mint-X theme on Linux!
I’ve actually been using this skin for a while now
man I love fake living in 2014
real living
Actual way of living
Even though I hardly remember 2014 myself since I was 5 at the time, I really like doing this too and still do have memories of that year and somewhat of how the internet used to look!
same tbh. 2012-2015 best years ever.
@@fexploder3281same
MJD: "For your birthday I'm making you a tribute to the history of your main competitor."
Firefox: ".....gee, thanks."
Oh my God, I am so happy!!!
Thank you so much for covering Geckium, I did not expect a video on it and especially this early. This video was so much fun to watch and it covered all its important features :D
(By the way, you can edit the toolbar layout to remove the gaps by right clicking the toolbar -> "Customize Toolbar...")
As for the Microsoft Edge theme missing the extension, I have absolutely no clue how that happened (I just tried downloading the same theme and it worked fine xd), I guess something went wrong when requesting the file somehow.
Again, thank you so much, this made me really happy :P
wassup bruni
@@themodman77 Sup modman!!!
@@AngelBruni celebrated my bday on 7th, got a new phone, didnt install discord on it tho
hbu
Hello! I'm using Geckium right now. It's amazing!
Impressive work, mate!
That last theme caught me so off guard. I don't think I've ever laughed so hard. Made my day.
same lol
What’s great about this is that it works with aero transparency
So we got Windows XP themed Windows 10 with IE6 themed Firefox and now we got this. Gotta love mods!
Just gotta say, it's so weird to watch an MJD's video with nothing but a screen recording and never get a glimpse of Michael's expressive hands!
Yeah! It has been a while since he has uploaded a video like these.
don't forget the bobble head
@@OptiplexAircraftI think he last did years ago
Now make chrome look like Firefox 😆
it will called cromifox
Impossible without editing source code.
Why?
@@ThatLinuxDude someone somewhere will find a way even if it means editing lol
I don't think that is even possible with how Google Chrome is designed though you could probably do this if you fork a version of Chromium.
0:10 mom i'm on youtube))
Anyway, glad for the project and for my participation there (albeit as a translator).
geckium is pretty good. i actually replaced my own chrome-inspired theme with it since it retains firefox features (which was what i wanted with my theme). props to the contributors for making geckium possible.
Up to now I was using a css theme to make it look like the "modern" theme from oldschool Netscape. But now I'm using Geckium.
Yay now my Librewolf looks just like my Brave. With the Amber Autumn theme for november.
ever since Firefox had their latest UI refresh, it and Chrome really do look very same-ish to me, so I was surprised to see someone going out of their way to make an extension like this. that being said, it is quite impressive to which lengths they go to emulate older Chrome interfaces on different OS's and even make themes from other browsers usable with Firefox!
Props to AngelBruni and the talented team and beta testers for this, well done!
Thank you so much Mondy!
Tbh they already made it look like Chrome when they changed the tabs to their current iteration. I liked the square ones more, they look more sleek.
And here I am loving the look of the Tango theme wanting it back again.
Very nice, I never thought you were going to drop a video about this but here we are! I also use Geckium on my computers too by the way, I really miss when Google Chrome had trapezoid tabs.
Trapezoid tabs are the best eheh
I think it is a good idea to make people use firefox even more. In my case, I use it on both desktop and mobile and this kind of projects are not something I would use. But.... I know people that can benefit from it. Thanks for sharing!
i'm so happy you reviewed geckium on your channel! i was one of the closed beta testers and the guy who created geckium-tan, the geckium-tan themes and translated most of geckium to pt-BR lol
i'm watching this in a windows 10 transformed very nicely to windows 7, a 2009 yt layout, and thanks to you, geckium
now my setup is complete!
1:25 "Tested on Arch, by the way" I love it.
Yes, finnally i can use uBlock Origin without the firefox style. ANd go back to what i am used to. Thanks Michael!!!
Great Video love the content keep it up
Compaq portable repair part 2 when ?
Ice trays
Oh... My. God.
Just today I was switching from chrome to Firefox because of the manifest v3 nonsense breaking some extensions I need, plus ad block, of course.
And then this video comes out. Just perfect timing
Nice touch with the "arch, by the way" in the list of supported distros xD
Interesting project, might help some folks migrate to a browser that still fully supports ad blocking.
Java & Bedrock is my favourite edition of Microsoft
I’m not surprised that someone tried to make this
only ogs will remember silverfox
What is up with ur pfp? Also, silverfox got discontinued
@ i know bru 😭🙏
I never thought id see the day something I helped out in be featured in an MJD video (I was a beta tester, great video mjd!)
This is really good timing for me as I switched to Firefox from Chrome yesterday
I absolutely love the way Geckium looks, but cannot for the love of me get it working :(
Make sure to download the file from Releases and not the sourcecode!
Honestly geckium is cool, kinda sucks that it only does old chrome versions tho :C
There's MaterialFox, which is a recreation of the modern chrome, although you wouldn't find the Material Design 2 one (before the 2023 rebrand)
if you are looking for old firefox, theres echelon
He Doesn't Know!
@@ThatLinuxDude what a very helpful comment
Been using geckium for a few weeks now, it's quite cool although i didnt mind my previous skin that I made to somewhat resemble the old Firefox
I half expected the final theme to be a theme that makes Chrome look like Firefox.
I like how the settings actually uses material design 1
Is Geckium only cosmetic, or is it possible to access Chromium only websites in Firefox with Geckium?
Geckium won't suddenly change your UserAgent to Chrome - use extensions to do that.
This is an amazing mod, but I heartily await the day we get a mod for Firefox that gives it the old Windows-native UX. I’m very fond of everything on my desktop looking like a native OS application, and Google Chrome has always gotten my goat in a way for standing out like a sore thumb.
It looks like Chrome when it was still supported on Windows XP. I miss those time.
Does something like this exist for the latest version of Firefox but for making it look like all the different versions of Internet Explorer on Windows 10? I know there's ways to theme FF around IE but idk exactly what others are doing/using to do it though.
Hah this would have helped me convice my brother to switch from chrome a while back! Fortunately it was not needed
This is cool!
Can you share that ice tray theme as that is HILARIOUS!!!
Approved!! Why not trying a Samsung Galaxy S phone? You can demo a Galaxy S1 from 2010
Anything to bring back the normal look of actual tabs instead of floating buttons...
Hey they made Firefox good looking 😊
I always loved the older design of chrome and stopped using it recently just because the ui keeps getting worse and worse so its awesome I can use the old styles on a modern browser again
I’m gonna guess this is much more achievable with Firefox than to try and make Chrome itself look like this.
@@SDK104 That's exactly it! It's why this project was made in Firefox instead :)
Vivaldi (which is Chromium based) allows for UI mods, but it's not as good as Firefox's freedom.
@@AngelBruniunrelated but i love u and ur work aaaaa
@@Dennis-ur4zu eheh thank you so much!!
Windows 11 really said "This ain' an MJD video if nothing goes wrong!"
_"That is a brief demonstration of ice trays"_
now make a video where every pause in this video is suspended for longer for comedic effect
Oh, I realised I am using Chrome since 2009 July! On 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015 era I would install a previous version to revert the UI and would try to find to disable updates. It was so hard to adapt for me.
I'd never expected Firefox to celebrate its anniversary
I wasnt really a big fan of it as i mostly used Chrome but due to their ram eating processes had to switch to windows' default browser
Its strange to see Firefox get turned onto Chrome through third party files and other
That's a cool Project. but I use too many google services to want to switch.
And great video
Good news the internet archive uploader is back online!
Can you fix the scrolling? Haven't used Firefox since highschool (like 2010) since scrolling just felt.....awful.
There's a project called Betterfox. It is just a file that changes the about:config settings (Firefox version of Chrome Flags), but there's a file called Smoothfox which shows a bunch of codes that you can change
@NicoDiamante It was a smooth scroll, it just always felt like it lagged
@kylespevak6781 oh
i miss the hands. BRING BACK THE HANDS
If we can get the same thing except make Firefox look like Netscape Navigator I will be eternally happy.
GREENJDICE THE BEST ICE IN THE WOLD
Not working for me I copied the extracted zip files into the correct folders, restarted the cashe, and nothing. Any clues??
You need to make sure the zip is from Releases and not the sourcecode from the repo :D
this is actually interesting!
I love this!
This is a superb theme, wish it worked with Chrome OS though.
Debian in Chrome OS presumably says hi.
@@ThatLinuxDudeI have FireFox installed (ESR version) and it doesn't do anything when I try and install Geckium.
I like the Chrome 58 option the most because it detects my tab selection when I put my mouse cursor at the evry top of the screen. I wish that was an option on all of the different versions.
Oh, that's... definitely not intentional.
What's your Firefox? Is it a fork? And what is the version?
All tabs should be easily selectable, I can't replicate that issue but I hope I can solve that issue soon with information that people give me.
12:52 of course they had to do it
i installed windows 8.1 with geckium + vorapis + startube (old youtube theme)
I'm actually currently using Geckium lol.
mrMJD needs to do a macOS 1.0 to 15 Upgrade saga video.... :)
2:49 this is such a common occurrence in Win11 it drives me nuts
I was literally googling how to do this a few days ago
FYI, Firefox is not any more privacy respecting than Brave.
yes but its grest as a secobdary browser to keep historys in check
But Brave is Chromium and Chromium is Google. And Google is bad. You get it 😀? Does not make sense to many people, for me it does. But Geckium doesn't. Don't why a browser has to "look" like another browser. Firefox is fine as it is.
@@ronny332what if you're a person whos too used to google chrome and wanted firefox to feel more at home" or whatever
only if you leave only at default settings, btw you can use librewolf which is preconfigured firefox for more privacy
Silence, Braveoid.
Firefox in incognito Mode.
is nobody going to talk the first second says tweet has -1 view?
It's very cool!
I am wondering about the legal aspect of spoofing the about section
Does it update keyboard shortcuts?
Fuck Google for breaking extensions and ad blockers.
i hate how rounded new chrome is
POG geckium!
3:52 is it just me or is there "The Real Slim Shady" by eminem subtly playing in the background
Good vid!
Now do it the other way? :))
Why did they make it look ages apart from the current Google Chrome
Because there's a kind of demand for those old-ish stuff.
There's people that theme their OS to make it look like an older one (for example those people that are theming Windows 10 to make it look like Windows 7) so this kind of themes are here to complete the overall.
Some themes are very well made, to the point you can barely distinguish if the OS you see is effectively the one it pretends to be.
I've seen a Windows 10 LTSC once that was themed to mimic Vista so convincing that if I didn't knew Vista UI like the back of my hand to find the little hidden detail that betrays everything (an OpenGlass' bug that doesn't render a window frame texture correctly), I could have totally believed it.
There's also some people that are simply nostalgic from those times.
Or the people that liked older UIs rather than the current ones (sometimes described as "bland" or "ugly")
This is the three main reasons I see someone use a such theme for their browser.
It can bring the old UI without having to use the 10-year-old version that have it back then, without compromising security nor compatibility.
@@jordananderson8299 Because we're working upwards - the plan is to ultimately reach MD3 Chrome too in terms of design selection after Geckium has its first stable release.
9:24: That's the 1st theme I tried too, Jesus Christ
firefox: we removed add-ons
Microsoft: Java and Bedrock Edition Theme 💀
Make internet explorer or edge look like chrome
2:50 reason i'm still using windows 10
3 minutes ago? Crazyyy
nice
Now add chrome skin
firefox is my fav browser but theyve been adding some spyware and im kinda mad i keep trying to find an alternative :(
Have you ever tried to search by yourself what this feature actually is before scandalize yourself about a way to fight the evil with evil?
What was it that they added?
@@ambientNexus A feature to attempt reduce tracking on ads. This feature goal is to only send the necessary data to allows advertisement companies to still be able to make ad measurements without having to track down users.
The main reason this was badly received is because Mozilla introduced that feature as opt-out (enabled it by default but can be disabled) and also doesn't really explained what its purpose. Also this being done in collaboration with Meta. Also, this with the recent arrival of Mozilla in the advertisement market to try being independent from Google's funding also didn't helped.
@@ambientNexus its the "ad privacy" feature borrowed from chrome set by default that sends data to websites
@@Kiki79250CoC Yes i did.
Peak
Make Firefox look like the older versions of Firefox
Yes windows 11 is wonderful but my PC can´t handle it.
Prince was right the internet is dead, it went from being a secondary library to it being purely transactional, I forgot how much data browsers aren't supposed to track or acquire but still do.
good evening host tamsak
I use ChromeFox every day 😂
Dream life please support him worldwide ♥️
The video was cool, as usual, thank you 🙂. But I don't get it. Why? Just because it's fun and possible? Sorry, really, I don't get it. For sure my bad, but the Firefox bars are fine, especially when you reduce them to a minimum like I do (no bookmarks, no extra bars, just tabs on top and address bar with navigation below it). Two gray bars, the rest is the currently shown website 🙂.
Especially when you can't run any new version without checking if the skin allows it, it's a killer. I never think about any updates. Arch does everything on a daily basis, a few plugins are installed and Firefox is working since over 2 years (setup of this workstation) without any wasted thought day by day.
I suggest to take a look to those little communities that spend their time to create old lookalike versions of popular services (like a website that replicates the 2013 RUclips, old Twitter, etc.)
Because theming has always been a thing since the beginning of UI operating systems and I'm glad the community is still going strong and porting back beautiful UIs from the late 2000s. I also use Arch Linux on Cinnamon Desktop and it has the original Mint-X theme from 2014, so Geckium fits really well with it!
@@sXpNetworkTv well okay as I said I was somewhere between wondering and not understanding it 😀 if it’s just about theming everything is fine 😉
Isn't Firefox already enough like Google Chrome? Firefox should be become like Firefox once was and made his success!