Personas for Firefox
Published by Sierra Monica B., on Dec 18 2007, in the categories: News
The latest tool released by Mozilla Labs is Personas for Firefox, a browser plug-in that allows you to change Firefox's skin when you want or to set it to change automatically.
What Mozilla accomplished is making the new skins easier to build and to try without the need for downloading or restarting.
Personas prototype comes to please those that want to find themes easier, need to style the browser without having to code, like to make their computer get a more fun and personal look.
According to Mozilla Labs, Persona selector id dynamically loaded and populated from a JSON feed while all designs are loaded through URLs to remote resources.
Soon, Mozilla will give designers and developers the possibility to submit Personas based on Web content, with support for HTML, PNG, CSS, JPG, JavaScript, SVG and Canvas.
To change the skin of your browser you have to download the plug-in and click to select from the Fox mask that will appear in the left corner down on the window.
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6 Comments on “Personas for Firefox”
Dana said on 12/18/2007:
Only cool tools from Firefox!
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Hyrum said on 12/19/2007:
I love FireFox.
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Sierra said on 12/19/2007:
I prefer Firefox too.
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The Power Couch said on 12/19/2007:
I like this new feature, makes Firefox even more awesome.
One thing I'd like to see, however, is the ability to turn off personas being applied to the status bar but keep them applied to the top bars.
Because while I like having a green Christmas background around the address bar, it looks kinda cheap and ugly on the status bar.
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Sierra said on 12/19/2007:
No you can't do that.
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The Power Couch said on 12/28/2007:
@Sierra
Learn to read.
"One thing I'd like to see"
I'd LIKE to see it.
I know I can't do it, but I'd like to.
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