In short, I installed the Crystal Firefox about:blank-style created by Gartheepan, and found that it heavily slowed down Firefox while loading. The reason is that the image used is on DeviantArt, and is over 200 KB large. The download process can be very slow.
Solution: Embed the image into the CSS using Base64. Gartheepan seemes to have tried, but 200 KB is too large for Userstyles.org. First installing the style, and then having to mod it with the code for the embedded image, might be too much hassle for some. I downloaded the image, resaved it as a 50 KB image, and converted it to Base64, so it could be embedded into the CSS-code. I found the 50 KB image quite satisfactory, because I do not look at about:blank for hours :)
About the screenshot: This is Firefox 3, with Glasser 1.0.16 for the Glass effect, and Personal Menu to hide the menubar. And Crystal FireFox, of course. Thanks for creating Crystal Firefox, Gartheepan. It really makes Firefox look nice when just opening up :)
Original style can be found here, if you want the larger image and/or embedded code: http://userstyles.org/styles/6921
Install options
- Install Stylish for Firefox, Thunderbird, Flock, Mozilla Suite, SeaMonkey, or Songbird. If you have Stylish already, make sure you're using the latest version and have JavaScript enabled.
- You need Firefox with Stylish to use this style. Get it now, then Install Stylish, then come back here to install this style.
- - load into the Stylish extension where you can preview and save it.
- - this style has been updated since you installed it in Stylish.
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eric77 said on Oct 03 2008
Very nice, I did the ABOUT:NETERROR with the same grafik.
About:neterror: Crystal Firefox (Embedded): http://userstyles.org/styles/10940
Have fun, eric77
krisu said on Jun 22 2008
Holy crap! This is totally awesome about:blank theme! One of the best that I ever seen. One fix to code (this is for Gmail):
color: white !important;