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Mozilla makes Firefox skinning easy with Personas
In a move aimed at making Firefox easy to personalize, Mozilla has released an extension called Personas. After a quick install, users can easily change the look of their beloved browser without the frustration of dealing with Firefox "Themes".
We agree with the Mozilla labs blog that themes are way to hard to find and install. Plus having to restart your browser just to apply a themes is just annoying. Another advantage for Personas is that graphic designers can apply different styles to the browser without having to write code.
Here's how it works. First you install the plugin and restart your browser. After Firefox comes back up, you see a little fox in the lower left hand corner (screenshot below), click the fox and select among the themes. Your browser is instantly skinned with no headache whatsoever! Personas is ready to use on Firefox 2.0 through the 3.0 Betas.
A feature we love is that the list of "personas" will auto-magically update on a regular basis. Maybe Mozilla labs just made browser skinning so easy that our parents could do it? Hmm maybe not!
[via Mozilla Labs Blog]
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Subscribe to commentsCain HighwindDec 18th 2007 4:19PM
Yeah, I'm liking this a lot. It's like the old hotbar for IE, without the spyware. I currently have "Groovy Blue". I'm hoping they expand the functionality to make it easier to make your own images (especially because they say the don't want copyright infringing themes on their server)
murphDec 18th 2007 4:53PM
I saw and installed this first thing this morning. I'm liking it too. Rocking a little holiday snowman for now. I like how the status bar is skinned too.
Gardiner WestboundDec 18th 2007 5:04PM
Great plug-in!
PeterDec 18th 2007 8:43PM
It is kind of cool, but it's really totally different from themes. This basically just changes the background image of the toolbars. A theme changes everything about the look, the icons, the menus, the tabs. You can use this with or without a theme, it doesn't replace the current theme.
GarrettDec 19th 2007 12:32AM
Anybody ever remember Neoplanet? http://neoplanet.com/