If you don’t have a copy of Firefox already, go ahead and download and install one at this point, so that you can execute the steps that follow. Let’s start with the Firefox application and extract its program icon out onto our desktop. As it turns out, this is not only how you do it in theory, it is also how you do it in fact. In concept then, all you need to do in order to change the internal TenFourFox icon to the classic Firefox icon is to open the TenFourFox package, delete the current icon file inside it and copy the equivalent icon file from the Firefox application to the same location. One of the items in that package is the program’s icon, and you can not only access it, you can copy it, change it, delete it and so on, just like any other file in a folder. It is not a single file but rather a “package” or a “library” – a set of files bundled together in a known structure, and containing pretty much everything in the one place that the equivalent Windows installer would have to scatter all over your disk drive. app file is a nearly completely self-contained entity. Unlike a Windows executable, which needs to litter support libraries (DLLs) all over your disk drive in order to deliver an executable result, a Mac application’s. The only major concept that you need to understand to do this is that an application program in Mac OS X is not simply a single monolithic file. You have to change the internal program icon to overcome this unfortunate behaviour, and so lets start by looking at how to do that. If you change only the external program icon, every time you run TenFourFox it will doggedly change the icon back to the original TenFourFox icon, at least for the icon displayed in the Dock anyway. First you need to change the externally displayed program icon, then you need to change the internal application icon and finally you need to update the program item in your Dock (assuming you keep TenFourFox in your dock, which most regular users of TenFourFox will do). There are two major steps and one minor step. So, how to change the TenFourFox icon to the classic Firefox icon? Happily, Apple provides all the tools. If you don’t agree, you may not wish to bother with the rest of this post! If you agree with me that the classic Firefox icon is the more attractive, read on. Since TenFourFox is a fork of Firefox, wouldn’t it be nice if it used the classic Firefox icon instead?Ĭompare the two icons below. While I find TenFourFox absolutely indispensible, what I wish I COULD dispense with is the program icon it uses, which I find quite unattractive. TenFourFox is a great browser, and an essential lifeline for those of us still intent on running PowerPC Macs in our daily lives.
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