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Personas is live, and an uglier Firefox is easier than ever!
Fans of other browsers have slammed Firefox's rather plain appearance for ages. Now, at last, Mozilla fans have a weapon which they can proudly wield against their friends who run IE7 with bikini-clad Hotbar backgrounds!
Personas has gone live, complete with a gallery chock full of prefab styles that can be easily applied to your browser. As with any desktop theming, there are a few aesthetically pleasing creations but there are also a number of abhorrent designs.
Too many of them wind up making a cluttered, distracting mess of the menus. Strata, for example, puts an annoying orange line right through my bookmark buttons. With Cool Black, I can't even read the labels. On the plus side, switching Personas doesn't require restarting Firefox like traditional themes do.
Still, kudos to Mozilla for making themes easier for users to put together. Firefox's easy and flexible personalization is one key advantage it has over competing browsers, so they may as well ride that horse 'till it drops.
Personas has gone live, complete with a gallery chock full of prefab styles that can be easily applied to your browser. As with any desktop theming, there are a few aesthetically pleasing creations but there are also a number of abhorrent designs.
Too many of them wind up making a cluttered, distracting mess of the menus. Strata, for example, puts an annoying orange line right through my bookmark buttons. With Cool Black, I can't even read the labels. On the plus side, switching Personas doesn't require restarting Firefox like traditional themes do.
Still, kudos to Mozilla for making themes easier for users to put together. Firefox's easy and flexible personalization is one key advantage it has over competing browsers, so they may as well ride that horse 'till it drops.
Comments
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Subscribe to commentsHCA_RecruiterApr 1st 2009 2:44PM
I just don't understand what the big deal is about having a personalized screen?
I say this as I look at my personalized screen.
BUT it is only personalized because I was given the option; honestly I would never miss it.........honest :)
RocketboyApr 1st 2009 2:53PM
Ohh, personalized spam.
Rohit KapurApr 1st 2009 2:54PM
Try Niagra Falls, Yosemite, Firefox Robot, Minefield, Minimal Lines, or any of the most popular. I have Niagra Falls set as mine at the moment. It's not obtrusive at all, and gives Firefox quite a decent look.
DeoWulfApr 1st 2009 3:55PM
I prefer these to standard themes. They're more unified overall.
DeoWulfApr 1st 2009 6:37PM
Hm, just updated some unrelated addons and it stopped skinning behind the tabs in Minefield.
AbscissaApr 2nd 2009 2:32PM
As if FF2/FF3 out-of-the-box weren't already ugly enough...