Leigh Brasington's Throbber Page for Mozilla 1.x and
Netscape 6.x & 7.x
Mozilla 1.x and Netscape 6.x & 7.x use animated GIFs as throbbers - much
easier to work with than Internet Explorer or the old style Netscape BMPs.
There are 2 GIFs that make a Throbber: a still one and an animated one.
You can mix and match the still and animated GIFs below - provided they are
the same height.
GIFs that are 20x20 to 24x24 work well if you have set Text Only for
Edit > Preferences > Appearance > Show toolbars as; GIFs that are
32x32 to 40x40 work well if the Toolbars include Pictures.
You can just save the GIFs below and use them as is.
Installation Instructions are below the GIFs.
 
 
Golden Spiral Throbber
created from an Animated GIF I found on the
Alchemy Mindworks Web Site. The large pair work if you have set Edit >
Preferences > Appearance > Show toolbars as to include Pictures;
the small pairs are suitable for Toolbars that are Text Only.
Colorful Yin Yang Throbber
which is just a colorized version of
Tom Carlson's
Ying Yang Throbber. For Toolbars with Pictures.
Eight Auspicious Signs created from Bob Jacobson's artwork in
the Osel Shen Phen Ling Gallery. For Toolbars with Pictures.
Wheel of Dharma and Om Mani Padme Hum
created from Bob Jacobson's artwork in
the Osel Shen Phen Ling Gallery
and Tibetan lettering. For Toolbars with Pictures.
Perforce's Walking P4
created from P4Win's
icon and animated cursor. This pair is just small enough to work no matter
how you have set Edit > Preferences > Appearance > Show toolbars as.
To install a new Throbber in Mozilla or Netscape, the hard part is finding
the "chrome" folder. It *might* be something like
where "leighb" will be your logon name, "default" might be your
email/logon name and "1jiat6rd.slt" will be some other collection of
random characters. But it could be under the C:\Documents and Settings
folder in something like
C:\Documents and Settings\Profiles\leighb\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\default\1jiat6rd.slt\chrome
or it could be someplace else.
One way to find the chrome folder is to go to the email window and click
Edit > Mail and Newsgroup Account Settings and then click on Server
Settings. Look in the Local directory field at the bottom of this
dialog page (you may have to resize the dialog). If you change to that
directory, the chrome folder can be found at ..\..\chrome or
../../chrome if you have a non-Windows system.
Once you have found the chrome folder, either edit the existing
"userChrome.css" file or create a new file named "userChrome.css". Then
add the following lines to userChrome.css:
Now copy the still GIF that you want to use to still.gif in the chrome folder
and copy the animated GIF to throb.gif in the chrome folder. Restart Netscape
or Mozilla and throb away.