Playing with Masks

A few weeks ago, I got an itch.  It was the sort of itch that I hadn't had in a very long time.  You see, many moons ago I was a bit technical. These days I'm more of a pointy-haired kinda guy over here at Mozilla.

Thanks to the tremendous support of many folks, over the last few weekends and several late nights, I've hacked together my first Firefox add-on.  I call it "Personas for Firefox" and it adds a feature that allows you to instantly put on a new mask or "persona" to personalize your Firefox.

It's still very early in its design and development, but ready for wider testing and feedback.

Please do check it out and let me know what you think. You can find it here: http://www.puffinlabs.com/personas/

Special thanks to beltzner, myk, mconnor, gavin, ss, ian hayward, mfinkle, and brendan for their advice and for answering my seemingly random technical questions. And especially to asa, jslater, rolo, graphicsguru, pkim and sean for whipping up the first round of themes that can be applied. Oh, and of course, Mozilla Japan for the awesome design work on Foxkeh that inspired this whole idea.

- cbeard

PS: if you're at all artistic, please do consider creating your own Persona and submitting it to the list. They are really easy to make!

Comments

[Robin Monks]

Not to be critical, but this looks a like the HotBar addon for IE

Robin