Personas for Firefox

The default Firefox theme is pretty bland, and the ability to change the theme using the add-on architecture is nice. But sometimes, you want to change a whole lot more than just the buttons.

That's where Personas for Firefox comes in. It's a lightweight theming engine for Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 Beta. What it does is allow you to quickly and easily change the look of your browser without a restart. It doesn't change the buttons or layout. Instead, it adds graphical elements to the top and bottom of the browser.

A picture being worth a thousands words, here's two:





As you can see, the effect isn't very subtle. But it is very fun, and allows you to customize your browser quickly and easily. You just hit the button in the bottom left of the browser that looks like a fox in a mask, choose the theme, and instantly your browser is changed.

I haven't noticed any performance hits from using Personas, either on the PC or the Mac. I've used personas for months now, and I've been very happy with it. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants a quick and easy way to modify Firefox's look.