Ever feel a pang of a nostalgia for the way web browsers used to look, but don’t fancy the hiccups or hassle involved in trying to run old softw

Geckium Turns Modern Firefox into Vintage Google Chrome

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2024-10-28 04:30:02

Ever feel a pang of a nostalgia for the way web browsers used to look, but don’t fancy the hiccups or hassle involved in trying to run old software on a newer OS?

Honestly, you probably don’t – but after checking out what the Geckium project can do style-wise to Mozilla Firefox, that may change!

Before I go on let me state upfront that this post is a spotlight, not a manifesto. I’m not here to persuade anyone as to why they should to do this since there is no need – it’s as ‘necessary’ as making Ubuntu look like a Mac or a tiling WM resemble a scene from Blade Runner.

Geckium is a Mozilla Firefox CSS and JS modification that restores the look and feel of past Chromium (or Google Chrome) releases, spanning from 1.0 to 58, while also bringing Chromium Theme support to Firefox, bringing obscure prerelease content to the limelight and retrofitting new content into every design.

I shone a spotlight on a very similar project, Silverfox, earlier this year. Silverfox was, as this, also a clutch of canny JS and CSS modifications designed to make Firefox ESR look like classic Google Chrome/ium.