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Not all applications will obey XFCE's theme because either they are not GTK applications or otherwise have their own theme engine.
Firefox has it's own themes to worry about, so it is not going to look as different as a program that actually follows the GTK theme (I believe the only thing Firefox's default UI will change is the color scheme, the rest is going to obey the theme file have installed for it).
Other such applications are Opera, and any KDE application (KDE applications have their own theme setup).
I had the same problem temporarily after reinstalling the OS. Unfortunately, I have a memory glitch.
IIRC, I had to alter a setting in the Xfce settings manager. It could have been Desktop : Allow Xfce to manage the desktop. What you are seeing now is OpenOffice's attempt at creating a GUI and I agree it's awful. I got quite a shock when I saw it on my system. You do not need to install anything to fix it and I'm almost 100% certain it's an Xfce setting that needs to be changed.
It's not! On Xubuntu, you need to install that package I said: openoffice.org-gtk. If you don't then, yes, OOo makes its own GUI, without GTK (not pretty).
Allowing Xfce to manage the desktop does not affect anything, other than starting xfdesktop, to show icons, wallpaper and such.
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