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45 reviews for this add-on
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
I Want give 3 and 1/2 but this site does not do halves, I cannot give it 4..so 3 it is.
Lets not fool each other "Bing" and "G Mail WITH "Google Search" have got their versions.
With Bing its the default and the pictures change everyday, and Bing chooses the pictures.
With Google you can assign you own picture, but you must be logged in to your G Mail account, for your picture to be visible.
I feel 50.50 about this add-on, Let me make this perfectly clear you would have to be a "ADDRESS BAR" searcher to get the full benefit of this add-on.............EXAMPLE you are use to or you don't mind typing your searches in the address bar...............
currently there is NO SEARCH ENGINE BOX option available within the pictures.
My main problem thou is there doesn't appear to be a way of telling the software to ALWAYS USE THIS PICTURE. ( If people want a slideshow, fair enough, but shouldn't there be a option box..??)
IMHO The software program needs a bit more work, but its future looks good very good, just think of mothers with their new baby pictures, football fans, pop fans, movie fans cars etc etc etc, ( As described in the "Browser Backgrounds" notes, its like having your desktop pictures in your browser.)
But the developer would need people to adopt searching in the address bar as the norm, ( But they could try to add a search box option in the picture, If the stats support this)
IMHO ( Again ) the developer needs to address these issue's, as for me well I haven't uninstalled it, but I have disabled it in the add-ons, I guess that is 50/50...............
.............and who knows next month I might have it fully enabled and then give it a full months test........!
Yours Thomas J
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Awesome add on! I had the foxtab one for a long time and never used it and it looked cluttered! Now I have my own wallpapers instead. You rock dev. Thnx
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.7.1-signed).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Hi there,
For those of you who want this to function as your home page, therefore placing the images from your selected album on screen each time your Home button is clicked on the NAV bar, try the following:
Open your Firefox options and, under the General tab, insert the following line as your Home Page:
chrome://browserbackgrounds/content/bb.html
This works great for me and each time I click Home, the browser displays one of the pictures from my album.
In addition, you still get the functionality of clicking New Tab and having one of the pics from the same album appear.
I came across this when I unloaded the New Tab which contained one of the images and its name changed from Untitled to its location which was exactly what I pasted above. :-)
Hopefully, this will give some of you what you're after.
As far as changeing web page backgrounds, you're going to be looking more at Stylish or Greasemonkey for that.
The developer gets full marks from me on this as I used it in conjunction with the Disney - Cars persona (for the header/footer and found at getpersonas.com) and a Lightning McQueen wall (for the Browser Backgrounds large center image and found at the official Disney Cars 2 site) to create an awesome browser interface that has my 3 year old son smiling from ear to ear every time we use the computer to browse his favourites.
That's worth 100 stars. :-)
Many thanks Baris!
Cheers,
Rick
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
The white background of new tabs contrasted horribly with my dark theme. I've always wondered why themes didn't change the tab backgrounds. This provides an easy solution.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.8).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Very very good! I love it.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.5.5).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Indeed looks very nice, it rocks.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.5.5).Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Pretty good once you clean out the defaults and put in your own backgrounds. Doesn't serve much purpose and the configuration might be confusing at first, but works as advertised and doesn't noticeably slow Firefox down. No real incentive to add personal backgrounds to the website, but the option is there for any attention-starved artists out there.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.5.5).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
great add-on, very easy to use, fast, simple...I didn't notice any lag when opening new tabs and from what I see, it doesn't take ANY longer for new pages to load (why would it?)...and it does not require you to register an email address to add new background images.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.5).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
very funky stuff :)
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.4.5).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
This add-on is simply fantastic. Wallpapers are something I cherish on the computer as I have a very large collection. Since switching from Windows XP to 7 I have been in heaven with the Wallpaper shuffling feature. In my opinion this extension adds exactly that functionality to Firefox.
The interface is simple and efficient. Adding new wallpapers is a breeze and the extension randomly selects one from your collection each time you open a new tab. I simply cannot recommend this add-on enough to other folks that enjoy wallpapers as much as I do!
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Cool .Adds the ability to customize more firefox.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.4).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great piece of software. Is it possible to stretch of a chosen background? Thanks.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.4).Rated 4 out of 5 stars
I believe it's a good extension to try, but I'd suggest to take Gollum away from the head position.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.3.5).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
▒▒▓▓ Great addition ▓▓▒▒
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.3.5).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Very kewl Add-on. I have about 50 Add-Ons, and this is definitely a keeper. Works perfectly, very stable, absolutely kewl.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.3.5).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Ok, I get it. Sorry for the post in haste. Right click the little green cube in status bar. Now I like it a lot better, Nice job.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.3.5).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Superperfect.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.3).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
f'ing love this addon. i put screamer faces on my new tabs so when people open them they get a small shock
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.3).Rated 4 out of 5 stars
This is an update to my previous review. After the author's response to my previous update, I decided to reinstall this extension and correct some of my previous complaints. 1. Yes there is a local install, and you don't have to upload the background to have it installed locally. 2. Although I joined the community, it appears that you do not have to do so since there is a local install. The community is there just to share your backgrounds with others. 3. The author acknowledged that the upload limit is limited to 200kb due to others with slow internet connections. However, I believe that this could be doubled without much of a problem. 4. The tutorial and the instructions on the website are, in fact, confusing, incomplete, and different than what is actually installed. The explanations offered here on the Firefox Addons website are easier to understand and more complete than what is on the author's website; without the explanation here, there is no way that I could find out how to do the local install and the deleting of backgrounds that you do not want. Moreover, the tutorial on the author's website show a different UI than the UI you actually use to install and delete backgrounds. 5. The procedure to have a static background was ultimately explained here, and it does work. I took one star off for the lack of accurate and easily comprehended instructions on the author's website. This is not a criticism of the extension itself, but if people cannot easily find answers to their questions on the website, they will become frustrated and uninstall this extension that works very well when the user understands how to operate it.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.3).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
This is the perfect. Combined with Personas, my Firefox looks great.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.3).To create your own collections, you must have a Mozilla Add-ons account.
