Has the winter weather gotten you down? Missing all the colours of Spring, Summer, and Fall? Fret no more, now you can bring a burst of colour to your Firefox browsing experience every day with the wonderful Avant Garde 10011 themes by Rob Holian.

Looks like somebody else has tried to put up a fresh new theme inspired by the local population of the Mushroom Kingdom. You have Mario, Luigi and the rest of the gang here. I have to say this is a beautiful piece of work. Makes me so happy I could go bust brick with my head until I find a surprise.

When we were receiving feedback during the development of the Windows themes for Firefox 3, one question tended to come up a lot:

Why are there three distinct visual styles of controls in the main toolbar?

This is a really good question, and something that I don’t think I adequately explained during the design process. Here are the current main toolbar icons:

I kept looking for new themes for Firefox 3 as soon as I installed it. There are lots of free downloadable extensions and add-ons out there and I recently I got my hands on 5 good looking themes as well that you should probably get for yourself.