Major Update to Personas for Firefox

cbeard

By: cbeard

On: March 31st, 2008 Posted In: Mozilla Labs

Personas for Firefox is a prototype extension that adds lightweight dynamic theming to the browser.

This version builds upon the previous release and allows developers and designers to submit Personas that are based on Web content, including support for anything that can load in a browser window, including HTML, CSS, PNG, JPG, Javascript, SVG and Canvas.

Personas for Firefox

Major Updates and Features

  • support for dynamic Personas that can change over time and can incorporate rich web content (HTML, SVG, etc.):
  • Where Am I Persona

  • custom persona editor that makes it easier to customize Firefox with your own style:
  • Custom Persona editor

  • styling of additional UI elements like the window titlebar on Mac and the Find toolbar on all platforms:
  • Using accent color on titlebar on Mac

  • various bug fixes and other minor enhancements.

Personas Directory

Coming soon: a new directory of personas to make it easier to contribute and browse them. In the meantime, see this documentation on creating a persona.

Get Personas for Firefox

  • Install Personas v1.0a1 for Firefox 2 or greater, Windows/Mac/Linux
    Warning: This is early prototype software. Use at your own risk.

How to Get Involved

18 Responses to “Major Update to Personas for Firefox”

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  2. MDW

    This is, hands down, one of the coolest extensions Firefox has seen yet. I just wanted to let you know that this is outstanding, and keep up the great work. Granted, it doesn’t do anything but make it look “pretty”, but the standard procedure for changing themes (install, switch, restart) gets tedious when checking out new ones - this makes all the difference.

    Bravo.

  3. Gonz

    it stopped working for me. I was using “viva Firefox”, and now I don’t see anything, except for plain white toolbars….

  4. cbeard

    @Gonz: Can you switch to other designs besides “Viva Firefox”? Also, which version of Firefox are you running and are you on Windows, Mac or Linux? Thanks for the feedback.

  5. Ken Saunders

    Fantastic job on the improvements.

  6. Gonz

    @cbeard:I’m running windows vista home premium. I’m using Firefox 2.0.0.13.
    And no, I can’t switch to any other designs.

  7. Leon

    @Gonz: Owned.

  8. Gonz

    @cbeard:what do you make of it? May it have anything to do with vista?

    thanks ;)

  9. Gonz

    @cbeard: I’ve enstalled Firefox 3.0b5 and now it works like a charm. Maybe the issue has something to do with firefox 2

  10. Alesandro O

    I’m also in the same boat as Gonz. I updated from 0.9.x and it only gives me the ‘Default’ option. Also the custom editor doesn’t seem to work, although when opening the editor, it applies a gradient image, which I assume is the default. Firefox 2.0.0.14, Debian. If you want more debugging info and testing, contact me at, mozilla -at- thephpjedi.com

    Here’s an error from the FireBug console:
    this.personas has no properties
    [Break on this error] _getPersona: function(aPersonaID) {
    file:///home//.mozilla/firefox//extensions/personas@christopher.beard/components/nsPersonaService.js
    Line 735

  11. Lim

    nice add-on… good job…but the problem is it loading slow…

  12. David

    I upgraded from ver 0.9.x and after restarting FF, whenever i clicked on a bookmark, the URL for that site wasn’t populated in the address bar. So I removed & reinstalled ver 1.0a1 and restarted, and then I didn’t see that problem again.

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