The Personas movement continues to grow with over 10 million people choosing to personalize their Firefox.

What Has Changed?

Since Personas was launched earlier this year, over 10 million people around the globe have chosen to personalize their Firefox by downloading Personas. Here is a quick look at what else has happened since the launch:

• Nearly 35,000 designs were contributed from artists at all levels of experience from all parts of the world (over 1,000 designs / week).
• Over 450 community members have shared ideas and feedback on the Personas forum.
• Nearly 40 affinity brands, including Harry Potter, Bob Marley, Lady Gaga, and Greenpeace have added their content to the gallery.
• Using community feedback, the Personas development team has released 13 upgrades (4 add-on, 9 website releases) in order to add features like Favorites.
• Localization community has diligently translated the add-on into over 25 languages; Personas website will be localized by the end of the year.

Thanks!

Like all Mozilla projects, Personas is a collaboration between people who develop the product and people who use it. The following people (and many more) have been commited to this product’s success:

• NinaBella, Digital Blasphemy, MaDonna, and thousands of other artists around the globe that give millions of Firefox browsers a personalized look and feel. They are the heroes of this project.
• Shae Rivard, who has supported the resolution of over 200 issues on the Personas discussion forum, as well as over 450 other members, whose feedback, testing, and contributions continuously make the product better.
• Ryan Doherty, Myk Melez, Toby Elliot, and Zandr Milewski, with the support of Erik van Eykelen, and Jose Bolanos, for collaborating with community feedback to constantly improve on the product. Collaboratively, the development team has fixed over 300 issues since launch.
• Carsten Book (a.k.a. Tomcat), Stephen Donner, Tony Chung, Krupa Raj, and Vishal Kamdar, for assuring quality releases, and for doing so within incredibly tight deadlines.
• Amy Zehren, Sean Martell, Catherine Brady, and Julie Martin, with the support of Monique Johnson, who have reached out to countless brands around the globe to share the Mozilla story, and offer them the opportunity to participate in a growing movement.
• Tara Shahian, Mary Colvig, Melissa Shapiro, John Slater, Sarah Doherty, Jay Patel, and all the other members of the marketing community that helped build awareness around Personas.
• Seth Bindernagel, Staś Małolepszy, Pascal Chevrel, and all the Persona localizers on Babelzilla (AtteL, dogi, drry, Ersen Yoldac, fernph, Funkin2x, funTomas, Joergen, jojaba, jooliaan, kkemenczy, kustodian, Lisman, lois, loveleeyoungae, moZes, pia, SiiiE, spjutster, steekid, stoyan, Wareczek, and wtspout), who worked diligently to ensure that Personas is accessible in as many languages as possible.
• Rainer Cvillink who, on a shoestring budget, imaginatively developed the original Personas video:

Getting Started with Personas from Mozilla Labs on Vimeo.

What’s Next?

Between now and 20 million downloads, we’re looking to make this feature even better and easier to use. To continue to evolve Personas quickly, and in the right direction, we need your feedback and participation. Join the conversation in the discussion forum and add helpful hints to the support wiki. And stay tuned to this blog for updates!

- Suneel Gupta & Myk Melez on behalf of the Personas development team

Tags: mozilla labs, personas