I'm a chump (firefox personas)

[Forboding Angel]

I started using them yesterday, and as loathe as I am to admit it, I actually enjoy having them.

Anyone else using them? If so which ones do you use/like?

Personally in thunderbird 3 and firefox I'm using "Fire and Thunder".

[smoth]

I use the awesome meme firefox persona.

[knorke]

so this are just skins?
welcome to 1998?

[Gedanken]

http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/2794

[Regret]

so this are just skins?
welcome to 1998?

What, you didn't know fads are cyclical?

[bartvbl]

Firefox B, by mozilla
just a calm theme, not much to it. I think I like that way of browsing the web
http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/16

[AF]

Here's a few to get you started:

https://tools.google.com/chrome/intl/en ... index.html

[bartvbl]

chrome =/= firefox
didn't firefox have some theming feature as well?

[knorke]

i still do not understand what parts of the browser get skinned. Just the background of this bar where the navigation buttons etc are located?

[Pxtl]

i still do not understand what parts of the browser get skinned. Just the background of this bar where the navigation buttons etc are located?

Same problem - the persona page shows a bunch of images, but no actual samples saying "This is what your browser will look like".

edit: took the plunge.

Okay, some of those are amusing, but it's amazing how 90% of them result in illegible tab-titles and status-bars. I mean seriously, did nobody test these things?

That and about 90% of them look like Ed Hardy shirts.

FYI, they skin the background behind the tab-bar and toolbars, as well as the status-bar along the bottom. They also can change the colors of the text elements to maintain contrast, but it seems like most fail at this, miserably. This feature really should be bundled with the button-skinning so that a skinner can provide a complete skin. Having a "skin" seperate from a "persona" seems stupid.

[Forboding Angel]

The personas themselves can change the text color and whatnot, it just seems that many authors like dark red text on black backgrounds *shrug*.

Also, if you install the personas extension you can just mouseover the personas you want to preview and it changes the browser.

Also, chrome atm is fail, why the hell is it mentioned in this thread? Chrome doesn't even support extensions properly yet. Report back when it does.

[aegis]

what do you mean by "doesn't support extensions properly"?

[MidKnight]

How about we keep the Chrome/Firefox argument out of this thread?
Perhaps start a new thread? Both browsers have their merits and their low points.

[Tribulex]

glasser for firefox pwns all. when im on linux i just use the system theme since firefox is nice about following standards.

[Peet]

How about we keep the Chrome/Firefox argument out of this thread?
Perhaps start a new thread? Both browsers have their merits and their low points.

Opera is superior in any case.

[Tribulex]

Oh true, we have another contender. Ill start a new thread now.

[AF]

Chrome does support extensions properly

Glasser is pretty, but it involves changes to the firefox window that makes the browser unstable. More crashes, higher cpu load, anomalous behaviours, and a far bigger memory footprint than is justifiable for what you get... In the end I had to uninstall the extension =/