Firefox Personas Updated

Sometimes it’s the little things that make me happy - like the ability to skin my Firefox browser, for example. I’ve been enjoying the Personas for Firefox extension since it came out back in December of last year. The extension adds dynamic theming to Firefox, which lets you choose from a variety of built-in themes, like landscapes, cute Firefoxes, geometric shapes, and more.

Not too long ago, I discovered that Personas had been updated. Due to the nature of this particular extension, there was no auto-update feature, so I only found out about it by visiting the Mozilla Labs website.

The new version of Personas is a major update. This version offers dynamic Personas that can change over time (like my iGoogle page), a custom persona editor so you can make your own, and some other minor enhancements and bug fixes.

I didn’t see it mentioned, but after installing the update, when I hovered my mouse over a particular theme in the list of options, it would change to that theme in the browser, sort of like an auto-preview. It never did that for me before and it certainly is handy when you’re going through the themes trying to decide which one you want to use.

In addition, several new themes have been added, including an odd selection entitled "Mozilla Japan," which seems to have nothing to do with Mozilla at all. But that’s OK because my favorite theme collection (Foxkeh - aka cute Firefoxes) has been updated with even more scenes.

The Mozilla post about Personas also promises that soon there will be an online directory of personas which will make it easier to find new ones. In the meantime, you can find some new personas that developers are posting in the forums to supplement the ones that come with the extension.

If you want to download this add-on or update your version of Personas, you can get it from here.