Transparency

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The Clean Glass Firefox Customization

4:00AM May 30, 2009 | The How-To Geek

After we wrote about the All-Glass Firefox theme, reader bc//G_A wrote in with an even more impressive customisation that enables the Aero Glass effect across almost every UI element. More »


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All-Glass Firefox Enables Slick Transparency Effects

1:30AM May 27, 2009 | The How-To Geek

Windows only: All-Glass Firefox v2 extends the super-slick Windows Vista Aero transparency effects to almost every piece of the Firefox interface. More »


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Blend Sets Custom Transparencies for Programs

1:00AM April 23, 2008 | Kevin Purdy

Windows only: Free transparency utility Blend isn’t like a lot of other see-through window hacks for Windows, and that’s a good thing. The system tray utility takes up very little memory (3 MB or less, by some estimates), and has simple but highly-configurable options. Setting Blend to only make certain desktop apps transparent is easy, as you can enter either the executable path or drag an icon onto the window you want to tweak. You can quickly kill or suspend the transparency effects from Blend’s systray icon, and that’s all there is to it—other than the fact that it just works. Blend is a free download, works with Windows XP, 2000, and Vista

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