Mark Twain wrote:
I thought all of that was done during
Beta testing so there wouldn't be any
surprises but I see your point.

Vista wasn't a hit or Windows 8.

Thanks,
Robert


I found more information on the topic.

The yellow folder thing is a "feature in transition".

The folder icon used to be done with a PNG.

They are changing it (in version 57) to an SVG
or Scalable Vector Graphics file. Presumably they have some
way to abuse the GPU on the video card, to make that
load faster than a PNG.

On version 56, I gather (it's possible) that the icon
is still a PNG, but they changed the color on it to
the crappy gray color. You can create a folder inside the
Firefox profile folder (xxxxxxxx.default) called "chrome".
And put a file named "userchrome.css" inside it. This folder
and file are *not* there be default. If you want to
do this kind of customization, that's how you do it.

xxxxxxxx.default\chrome\userchrome.css

Inside that file, you can place some CSS code, to
cause the grey folder icon to become yellow-ish. The
only problem with this, is the icon itself looks like
crap, and turning it yellow really isn't helping.

I tested it, and it did change color. But it doesn't
look good.

But when version 57 comes in, I have a suspicion
that "fix" isn't going to work.

There is also an addon, a kind of "Classic Restorer"
which messes with themes. But it's likely to get
broken when version 57 comes along too. The language
for plugins changed, and so the plugins had to be
re-written to work.

*******

I wonder if it's possible to re-write software,
and keep the appearance of the browser the same ?
No, no, I'm being silly. It's just too much fun
to **** off users... What was I thinking :-\
[Awesome Bar, I'm lookin at you...]

What this amounts to really, is a battle of ****wits.
The Google Chrome developers are "ahead" of the
Mozilla Firefox developers. Therefore, the Firefox
developers have an "inferiority complex". They
must "impress" their competitors, with crafty
code changes. However, the users don't figure into
these changes. We're merely along for the ride, putting
up with whatever happens.

They've never cared before about what we thought,
and the Awesome Bar introduction around Firefox 2 or
3 or so, was the beginning of this "screw the user"
attitude. I noticed just recently that they remotely
"broke" my fix for the Awesome Bar, by breaking some
plugin I've been using for *years*.

So the reason I'm not really preparing a nice recipe,
is because I fear that version 57 will just break
it all again. In many ways, the rolling release of
Firefox causes just as many issue as the rolling release
of Windows 10 (mess up your customizations, undo your
work).

Enjoy those gray icons.

Paul