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Theme Firefox On-the-Fly with Personas
Posted by Adam Pash at 12:00 PM on December 18, 2007
Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): If this year's four-part Show Us Your Firefox series taught us anything, it's that a lot of you love personalizing your favourite browser. The newest Firefox extension from Mozilla labs, called Persona, is designed to make lightweight browser theming even quicker and easier. Among other things, Persona changes Firefox themes on-the-fly from a small menu in your browser's status bar. New themes are automatically updated to Persona, so there's no searching high and low for themes—instead, just find one that sounds interesting (or just check out the popular themes) and go with it. You don't need to find a download page or restart your browser. Just click the them and watch as your chrome changes before your eyes. Granted, theming your browser isn't the most productive endeavor on the block, but if you're already into theming, Personas should certainly simplify the process.
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BackDoorAngel
Posted 10:30 PM 17/12/07
"Granted, theming your browser isn't the most productive endeavor on the block"
The PimpZilla theme boosts my self esteem, which helps me be more productive ;-)
[addons.mozilla.org]
BackDoorAngel
thepinkc
Posted 10:27 PM 17/12/07
I think Personas is great - it reminds me of how you can go in and tweak your Fx to display a certain background. But these are much cooler and easier to implement! :)
thepinkc
TonyAgudo
Posted 10:09 PM 17/12/07
@amigokin: Don't know about Vista, but they fit well with my OS:
[tonyagudo.net]
TonyAgudo
oldredhat
Posted 10:05 PM 17/12/07
@amigokin: Some aren't so bad.
oldredhat
amigokin
Posted 9:56 PM 17/12/07
Doesn't look good with Vista. :-S
amigokin
anonymii
Posted 9:49 PM 17/12/07
These are really neat. I like not having to restart after every change. Hope it's easy to make your own.
anonymii
amigokin
Posted 11:23 PM 17/12/07
@oldredhat: The problem is that, besides Personas, the default Firefox theme looks awful with Vista's Aero.
amigokin
Emerick
Posted 11:17 PM 17/12/07
Works fine on my Vista laptop ! Great extension ! Thx a lot !
Emerick
SilverStar95
Posted 11:01 PM 17/12/07
Been using this all day. I'm using the "Leather" design and I find it to be just the right touch of class.
SilverStar95
Ruiz
Posted 10:49 PM 17/12/07
A deep velvet blue would look terrific with my theme.
Ruiz
antwad
Posted 3:28 AM 18/12/07
Another great app Lifehacker! Thanks! ~T.
antwad
Himanshu Jain
Posted 3:16 AM 18/12/07
I tried it and it is awesome... Lightweight, Fast and beautiful... reminds me of Hotbar which used to come for IE. The only difference being Hotbar is a Malware and Persona (I hope) is not..
Himanshu Jain
Victor V.
Posted 2:38 AM 18/12/07
@amigokin: So, you haven't discovered Stylish yet? Anyone with minimum CSS knowledge can fix that, if Stylish is enabled. If you have Stylish and don't know where to start, try userstyles.org and type in "vista" for searching.
Victor V.
holymogwai
Posted 5:30 AM 18/12/07
Is there a theme to make Firefox not bloat up to 128mb ram just for opening a few tabs?
holymogwai
amigokin
Posted 5:00 AM 18/12/07
@Victor V.: I'm gonna try that, thanks! :D
amigokin
JrezIN
Posted 6:34 AM 18/12/07
@holymogwai: You may want to try the portable version of Firefox. more expecifically, the version 3.0beta1 from [portableapps.com] It's a great improvement in the memory management (and you can try this version without messing around with your current install).
If not, you can always try Opera 9...
JrezIN
edythemighty
Posted 6:07 AM 18/12/07
@holymogwai: I think it's called Flock
edythemighty
Nxqd3051990
Posted 8:26 AM 18/12/07
NOt bad :)
Nxqd3051990
murph
Posted 2:17 PM 18/12/07
never used FF themes, but i'm liking these. nice and simple. easy to change and get new ones.
murph
SamVed
Posted 2:16 AM 20/12/07
Very cool.
Thanks Adam!
I'm eagerly waiting for some cosmic stuff based themes, like galaxies, planets, Earth a la NASA, and so forth. I'm an out-there kind of guy.
SamVed
drsmith
Posted 5:25 AM 24/12/07
"is designed to make lightweight browser theming even quicker and easier"
had to read that a couple of times to make sense out of it - we all know that firefox is not a lightweight browser :-)
drsmith