It’s the catchy sentence behind Mozilla Lab’s latest invention called Personas. This so called “Personas” are not your inner self being summoned to fight monsters (I’m talking about the PS2 Persona games – review of Persona 4 here), but are skins for your Firefox web browser.
Huh, skins? Don’t we have Themes already? Well Personas change only your browser skins (or backgrounds) rather than the whole navigational and interface looks that’s been provided by Themes.
To install the skins, you need to download and install the Personas add-on first. It’s quite easy and once you have the add-on installed, you can quickly preview and switch between different Personas by clicking on the cute foxy icon on the bottom left corner of your Firefox.
No Firefox restart is required, compared to changing Firefox themes.
To get Personas working, remember to change your Firefox theme to the default. I was having a problem seeing the Personas on the top area of the browser because I was using a different theme.
The Groovy Blue Persona is quite cool:
or when I’m feeling girly:
But honestly, not many people are going to appreciate this. I don’t really like “dirty” background as application skins or wallpapers. “Dirty”, meaning having texts and components overlapping on top of a background loads with pictures. Hope you know what I mean. But to those who like seeing colors and more colors, Personas are the latest “in” thing that you need to install on your Firefox.
Love it or hate it?
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It look so cool
however i’ll never use firefox anymore because to day i’ve found a best browser, faster than FF, IE, Chrome or even Opera and it’s also very power. Lets forget Firefox 
Oooh? What can it be? K-Melon? Safari? Maxthon? All other browsers are basically using the engine of another, so what is it?
Sir Michael, its me again, Ron.
This is a really great addition again. Aside from their add ons, then skins are being released. I love Mozilla. Sorry IE.
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I like to use Mozilla firefox with this unique addition my firefox is looking to cool.
hey thanks !! i just came to know Personas themes for browser. its really cool & effective.
Mike, i’m glad to hearing from you! Ok, Its name is: “Fool-Day”…
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You’ve published this post on thursday, 2 april. But i’m sorry, in my country i have 3 hours left when i post this comment, just funny
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Haha, good one Van
Wow – I never heard of this before… and it even seems to be “old” – thanx for the post.
Will also be posting about it… (of course with links to your post !!)
Thanx again
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Yeah it’s been a while, although I’ve never heard of it until now. But I’m loving Firefox Themes much better than these
It looks great…. Will check this out and change the look of the Browser.
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@Michael Aulia = the fun part is – you can combine the Firefox themes with this; so I have the buttons etc of LittleFox and a black-white firefox Personas
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Meh, mozilla should be working on security updates and making the browser more efficient. Isn’t this just the same thing as a skin switcher?
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Sober looks more comfortable while working on browser rather than overlapping of color and themes, over looks seems like fuzzy, one more great supply by firefox.
today my browser is wearing Groovy Blue.
My browser will wear whatever the firefox updates are. Forget IE and chrome, they are just behind in the game.
-Jack
Simplistic, Winampesque, and this will definitely appeal to the masses – maybe even the market share. Bet most Theme (the Mozilla Add-on) makers will now work on making their Themes compatitble with these skins. In fact, this may be the death spell – even a call of extinction – to Themes, or possibly a merger of that and Personas in the near future, since their features overlap. Can’t wait.