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OperaFox: How to make the Opera browser look like Firefox?

Published January 25th, 2007 1:31 PM EST By Daniel Goldman

Want to make your Opera browser look and feel like Firefox? You can, by customizing the default Opera skin and menu and toolbar setups. Luckily you don’t have to do all the work yourself; you just have to click on a simple link.

[Click here to install the (OperaFox) Firefox look and feel]

Below is a screenshot of my Opera browser with the Firefox setup (Click on the screenshot to enlarge it).

Thanks to Opera’s Rijk van Geijtenbeek, the guru on customizing the Opera browser. Rijk is the author of the popular post ”Top 150 Popular Firefox Extensions and Opera“, where he compares the top Firefox extensions to the features that come built-in with Opera. (Rijk’s blog || Rijk’s Opera customization)

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  1. 1 Je Jan 25th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.10 on Windows Windows Server 2003

    This is totally different from what I would like. :)) When using Ff I prefer to look just like Opera, but I didnt’f find any skin/extension. Nice job but… Ff is ugly.

  2. 2 Ted Jan 25th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.10 on Windows Windows XP

    I’d rather know how to make FireFox into an Opera clone with a simple click (for times I have no choice, ya know).

  3. 3 IceArdor Jan 25th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.12 on Windows Windows XP

    Well, I saw quite a few Extensions that mimicked functions in Opera, but there’s no where near enough of these extensions to do all of what Opera can do. Unfortunately, I didn’t find any Mozilla Themes (skins) which were like Opera.

    Here’s all of the Opera-related Firefox extensions:

    https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/907/
    https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1433/
    https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/11/
    https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1499/
    https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1027/
    https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3928/
    https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/427/
    https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1928/

  4. 4 Dane Jan 25th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.10 on Windows Windows XP

    There’s a cool Opera skin for Firefox here:
    http://imsuden2.blogspot.com/2005/06/opera-theme-for-firefox_13.html

    It actually makes firefox feel faster :P

  5. 5 Philip Jan 25th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.10 on Windows Windows XP

    Why would yo do that ?

  6. 6 Liam McDermott Jan 25th, 2007 at 8:34 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.10 on Linux Linux

    Unfortunately I’m getting a 404 error when clicking on the ‘Click here to install the (OperaFox) Firefox look and feel’ link. :(

    Is it me or the site?

  7. 7 Darken Jan 26th, 2007 at 12:20 am
    using Opera Opera 9.12 on Windows Windows XP

    @ Liam McDermott: Yeap, link is dead! :(

  8. 8 xErath Jan 26th, 2007 at 12:29 am
    using Opera Opera 9.10 on Windows Windows XP

    I like Opera how it is, and don’t like FF appearence.

  9. 9 Nathan Jan 26th, 2007 at 2:13 am
    using Opera Opera 9.10 on Windows Windows XP

    I have to agree with wath others already said. FireFox is ugly! Opera has way better looks… Don’t change too much of it!

  10. 10 DB10 Jan 26th, 2007 at 2:20 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.10 on Windows Windows XP

    The link is knacked, could we have a new one please?

    Thank you.

  11. 11 el_esponjoso Jan 26th, 2007 at 8:01 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.10 on Windows Windows XP

    error404.html

  12. 12 nik Jan 27th, 2007 at 11:25 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.10 on Windows Windows XP

    404 not found, but still opera rules no need to imitate friendly rivals, except for ie which is the dumbass monster

  13. 13 Rijk Jan 29th, 2007 at 5:25 am
    using Opera Opera 10.50 on Windows Windows XP

    I don’t want to promote that single-link setup, because there is no easy uninstall method.

    But you can get the same effect by installing these:

    Menu
    Toolbar
    Keyboard shortcuts
    Skin (or pick another variant from Ralf’s Firefox skins)

  14. 14 Darken Jan 30th, 2007 at 4:40 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.12 on Windows Windows XP

    @ Rijk: Thanx for the links. :)

  15. 15 gt Feb 4th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
    using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.1 on Windows Windows XP

    firefox rocks!!!

  16. 16 el_esponjoso Feb 8th, 2007 at 9:12 am
    using Opera Opera 9.10 on Windows Windows XP

    whatever………

  17. 17 }SkOrPn--' Apr 12th, 2007 at 11:37 pm
    using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Windows Windows Server 2003

    Does this actually give us the bookmarks on the toolbar just like firefox has by default? I like Opera better but cant leave FF because of this one reason. Thank You!

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