People that like themes. I’ve actually used this Motörhead theme because they rule.
Edit: I do agree that the search for themes should be separate from add-ons, or just have a themes/add-ons/all button.
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People that like themes. I’ve actually used this Motörhead theme because they rule.
Edit: I do agree that the search for themes should be separate from add-ons, or just have a themes/add-ons/all button.
Trick question, Lemmy is god.
Fun fact: Lemmy is why Lemmy is called Lemmy.
Look at the user counts. This is exactly what it is. People like it enough to download it.
As for why mixing them up... Well... That's just classic store search things. "You may like this too" or "You may be in the wrong place to browse themes"
I know a few Motörhead fans would see that and say hell yeah
I thought hellyeah was a different band?
The bloodhound gang song?
You can filter by extensions or themes on the left under Add-on Type
i know but you have to do it every time.
Maybe just so new users realise they're a thing.
Firefox out of the box isn't very attractive, so mixing in themes by default maybe helps retain new people without driving us lot away.
I feel like it's just a matter of it being easy enough to scroll by. Most people don't regularly install add-ons or themes, and will never get too familiar with the UI to know to select one or the other, nor will they be annoyed by having to scroll past themes.
Plus, you might search for an add-on, but randomly scroll past a cool theme and because themes are so easily digestible, you'll immediately know that you want it or not.
Which isn't to say, I'm completely foreign to your pain. I prefer to keep the unpersonalized OS aesthetic, so even a cool theme wouldn't get installed by me. Albeit, I haven't gotten annoyed enough by it so far.
Having said that, if you install add-ons that often, maybe you'd like to add a custom search bookmark.
Use this as the URL to only see extensions:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/search/?q=%s&type=extension
I did that a while ago but I never remember to use it :(
I'm not a fan of addons being mixed with themes either. But I always thought about it as some sort of laziness on the design.
Remembering my unhinged usage of themes for anything, regardless of how many runescape accounts got hacked, when I was younger, I gonna take a guess and says kids.
I guess never look into userChrome.css?
I heavily modified my firefox not only with a simple theme, but also to have smaller icons, no favicons or x close buttons on the tabs, to have a thick cursor, no forward or back buttons, etc. All through config settings, userChrome.css, and a simple theme. I mainly did this for aesthetic reasons, but also to make the UI much more minimal as I simply don't use the mouse when browsing (Vimium extension and native keyboard shortcuts). It's one of the reasons I hate Chromium in this regard. While they do have skins as well, their configuration options for the UI are far more limited.