download errors when getting themes

Old Hec III · Post by **Old Hec III** » November 28th, 2006, 4:30 am

i keep getting download errors right now when trying to get a new theme,noia extreme is the one i want,
i just had to do a re-install of this infernal product of bill gates' and now i'm trying to get everything fixed back like it was.
neither of the noia themes will download.

miguknamja4 · Post by **miguknamja4** » November 28th, 2006, 4:47 am

I had similar problems with themes and also ie tab.

Old Hec III · Post by **Old Hec III** » November 28th, 2006, 4:53 am

was that error -228?

miguknamja4 · Post by **miguknamja4** » November 28th, 2006, 3:14 pm

malliz · Post by **malliz** » November 28th, 2006, 3:16 pm

It's this problem http://kb.mozillazine.org/Unable_to_ins ... Error_-228

Old Hec III · Post by **Old Hec III** » November 28th, 2006, 10:31 pm

i guess i just have to do without them,
i don't get it???

skwij · Post by **skwij** » November 28th, 2006, 10:53 pm

mrclarke wrote:i guess i just have to do without them,
i don't get it???

Did you read Malliz's link? Try downloading to the desktop, then installing from there.

Old Hec III · Post by **Old Hec III** » November 28th, 2006, 10:56 pm

where's the link to d/l to the desktop?

i just checked to see if there was answer before i run an uninstaller.

skwij · Post by **skwij** » November 28th, 2006, 11:13 pm

I personally would try RIGHT click, save link as, and save to desktop.

Then go to Tools>Addons>Themes, and drag/drop the new file on your desktop to the open space in the Themes dropdown. Once it's installed, click the button that says "use theme" and restart Firefox.

Sorry if the path isn't correct, I'm not on Windows and I'm assuming you are.

Links on this forum show in pale Teal colour, and underlined. Just click it to get to the new page.

Old Hec III · Post by **Old Hec III** » November 29th, 2006, 12:10 am

Jesus!
now my posts are disappearing.

i d/l it with I.E.7 and sent it to my download folder that i have on C:/drive;

then i moved it to the desktop with the unlocker.exe and launched the Firefox 2.0;

re-sized the browser window and then dragged the component to the open area as you suggested in the drop down for the add-ons.
the inoculation TOOK.
and the theme ,Noia 2.0 extreme is running right now.

skwij · Post by **skwij** » November 29th, 2006, 12:12 am

Excellent! Glad it worked for you!

ps that's the theme I use and really like, too.

Old Hec III · Post by **Old Hec III** » November 29th, 2006, 12:18 am

yeah,
and i love the work that these young geniuses do up at that Mozilla open source project up at the University of Oregon.

posted to the other thread also.
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... 02#2624802

miguknamja4 · Post by **miguknamja4** » November 29th, 2006, 12:27 am

skwij's advice worked for me, too. The official Firefox suggestions did not. I'm running Whitehart now, and will download other extensions later. I only had problems with a few.

Solved!

Old Hec III · Post by **Old Hec III** » November 29th, 2006, 12:32 am

miguknamja4 wrote:skwij's advice worked for me, too. The official Firefox suggestions did not. I'm running Whitehart now, and will download other extensions later. I only had problems with a few.

Solved!

He's just one of those egghead geniuses from Canada!

my grandpa was born in red rock ontario in 1887.

skwij · Post by **skwij** » November 29th, 2006, 8:37 am

Bump, as there's a few posts asking this same question on pages 1-3 currently (this thread "was" on pg 4).

Rather than d/l or use IE, at least try Opera until you get Fx the way you want it. No, I'm not a fangirl of Opera, but anything's preferable to IE, IMO.