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Create Firefox themes with Personas

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Personas for Firefox is an extension that adds lightweight theming to your browser. And all you need to do is look for the one that best suits your preferences. It allows for seamless transformations to the browser without constantly installing new themes and having to restart the browser over and over again.

Personas let users change the top and bottom grey backgrounds of the browser window in favor of colorful designs or images. Getting Personas up and running is also easy; simply download the add-on (compatible with Firefox 2.0 and above) and you’ll be presented with a small icon in the bottom-left of the browser on start-up.

Create Firefox themes with Personas

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There are about 50 Personas to choose from, and more are being regularly added. Skins are grouped into four categories — Most Popular, Recent, New, and All — and the last category contains subgroups like Nature, Scenery, Sports, and Holidays.

To create a Persona for your browser, start by creating header and footer images — 3000×200 and 3000×100 pixels respectively — and save them to your hard drive. Next, navigate to the Persona settings via about:config. Scroll down to extensions.persona.editor and change the setting from disabled to manual, then close the Firefox editor.

Click on the Persona icon at the bottom of your Firefox browser window and select “Custom Persona Editor” from the menu. Navigate to the images you saved earlier, and watch your new Persona appear at the top of your browser window.

There’s not much practical use for Firefox Personas at this point beyond adding a bit more eye candy to an otherwise drab browser window. But Personas does show that Mozilla is continuing to take steps toward a completely customizable browsing experience.

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  1. Nicholas | Pixobyte.com on January 26th, 2009 12:29 pm

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