Personas for Firefox, Now With Snowmen

We've officially moved Personas into Mozilla Labs where we'll be exploring new forms of dynamic personalization.

Be sure to grab the new version, it's a major rewrite of the code and includes dozens of new designs. It also now works with the beta releases of Firefox 3.

Special thanks to Rhian for coordinating the development of new designs, and to Myk for driving this round of development. 

A new Web site and developer APIs will be released within the next couple of weeks.

Comments

[Shlomi Fish]

Well, the Wordpress on labs.mozilla.com ate my comment so I'm posting it here. Looks nice. However, from my brief use of it in the Mandriva Cooker Firefox 2.0.0.11, I found the following problems: 1. It didn't work properly with the "Red Cats (blue flavor)" theme. It changed some of the graphics, but not properly. I could only get it to work with the Firefox default theme. 2. With my configuration in the defualt theme, only part of the upper toolbars is covered with the Persona background: http://xrl.us/bcwxf I have a relatively large numbers of toolbars, so its display is annoying this way. I hope these problems will be resolved. Keep up the good work! Regards, Shlomi Fish

[Chris C]

These are awesome. This is exactly the kind of lightweight skinning system which Mozilla has been crying out for since, like, 1998. This should be prmoted _hard_, and including Personas by default would be a great step forward.

- Chris

[MisterB]

This is going to be great fun to play with. I've never been a big fan of themes. Other than using CuteMenus for FlatStyle and the icons on the menus (along with CrystalFox for its buttons), I pretty much leave the appearance of Firefox alone. Being able to incorporate the image of my choice, though... yeah, I'm going to enjoy that.