GetPersonas.com Offers Instant-Preview Firefox Themes

Too bad my office still uses IE6 :/

cha0tic

@cha0tic: Haha, same as my friend at his home though. He aksed how to get tabs, he was still on IE6, he thought installing a newer version or getting firefox would cost him money and give him viruses.

Jordan10la

anyone else's first instinct to this post was "did lifehacker get hacked?"
after looking at gizmodo.com and coming back here that was my first thought.

lol

That preview does certainly decrease the time to set up a nice persona. i found one called "electric sky" which adds a nice fading blue.

Check it out: [img406.imageshack.us]

@Oneshot417: lol why?

Jordan10la

Do not combine with themes! I switched to the default theme in order to test out the personas, decided I wasn't a fan, and then switched back to my preferred theme... and now I'm looking at an ugly mish-mash, with the icons of my selected theme but the font color and faded tabs of the persona. Fortunately, it's easily undone by selecting Default on the personas menu.

I like the basic idea underlying personas, but themes are a much more coherent way to give Firefox a visual tweak.

Andrew Harrison

@Jordan10la:
i guess the colors and the GETPERSONAS.com raised a small flag but after coming from gizmodo it raised a bigger one.
for example, see this link at gizmodo's site.

[i.gizmodo.com]

I'm having trouble figuring out how this is "search-able." Am I missing something?

McMaarons

I like internet in my browser

David Engelbrink

I prefer using glasser and userstyle scripts to give a win7 transparent feel to the fox. That said, I installed personas on my GF's underpowered lappy and it works like a charm. I also get the feeling it uses less resources but that could just be me. Anyway, personas themes are slowly getting better and I would expect them to rival more mainstream themes very soon. Adding a switch theme each X seconds or switch on startup function would be awesome. All in all a keeper for people who are not into transparency IMO

@IBoris: And for people who have the ColorfulTabs extension installed.

@IBoris: It's lightweight because it requires merely 2 image files, each with a 300kb size limit.

If you click on the Personas icon in the status bar and hover-navigate to the categories, you can choose one of the "Random selection from..." themes to get a new one every time you start Firefox. It would be nice, though, if there were more options for that.

I'm not a huge fan - they kinda obscure my tabs in a way that is irritating to no end. I'm giving them a try in 3.1 beta, though, and they're not as bad as 3.0.

I want nothing on my browser except navigation buttons and the address bar. Oh wait, there's autohide Menu Bar.

DoraHaoiet

@will_hopkins: Try the FirefoxB theme. It looks sharp and doesn't obscure any of the UI.

jetRink

Now don't get me wrong, I love the Fox, being European and all, but when I tried Personas before they slowed loading time down to a crawl. Removed them, and I was back up to speed. Anyone else had this?

TheSleepingOtter

"I like my browser to browse!"
damn gimmicks!! this is one distraction thing mentioned here [feeds.gawker.com]

ewerybody

I'm trying it out. Personas is not playing well with my Pimpzilla Theme! It may have to go from whence it came!

I'll try this on for size . . whether or not I'll keep this extension remains to be seen.

This is a nice alternative for people who have extensions that conflict with themes. It is rather annoying though that it alters the bookmarks toolbar spacing.

@Andrew Harrison: You're right, although I have found that Aeon Colors theme can be used with Personas. There may be others, but this is the only one I've found.

aylen

@TheSleepingOtter: Yes, sometimes. I also had times when there seemed to be a connection problem or something and it stopped me dead in my tracks until I went in to disable it.

Also, some of the themes make it impossible to see, and therefore use, the icons in my toolbars.

Still, I like the idea, so I keep it installed and revisit it every once in a while to see if things have improved.

aylen

I've been using Personas for a LONG time, like when the extension was still in early beta. It's come a long way, but I've always liked the look of Groovy Blue.

Choppasmith