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The Future of Personas

As you may already know, Personas in Firefox 3.6 has been a phenomenal success and with this new-found success comes new responsibility. Personas was a Mozilla Labs experiment that has matured and graduated from Labs. Much of its process and code was for a prototype and is beginning to suffer from the overwhelming popularity in [...]

The life of a Personas approver

We’ve recruited for persona approvers for the past few months and I realized (thanks to Mary) that we never explained what’s involved in being a personas approver! The responsibilities of being an approver are pretty simple: you review personas! We have a list of all unreviewed personas that have not been approved: Our approvers work [...]

57,000 and going strong!

That’s right, you heard correctly, there are now over 57,000 personas on getpersonas.com. The past three weeks have been a blur for the Personas team and its contributors. We’ve seen millions of new users join our community and enjoy theming their Firefox. Thousands of designers created over 19,000 personas! Just to give you an idea [...]

Help Personas Succeed!

Personas are now a feature of Firefox and we need your help! We want to have more of the community involved with Personas and here’s how: Support users in our google group: http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla-labs-personas/ Answer support forum questions in SUMO: http://tinyurl.com/ybwdkjy (SUMO search for ‘personas’) Update the wiki with information: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Personas File bugs: Personas website: http://tinyurl.com/yj66yfh [...]

Personas update

It’s been a crazy few days for Personas since the release of Firefox 3.6. In case you didn’t already know, Personas are built-in to Firefox 3.6! Now millions more users of Firefox can enjoy personalizing their browser with Personas. Since the Firefox firstrun page features Personas and links to the gallery, we’ve seen a substantial [...]

getpersonas.com 2.1 has launched!

If getpersonas.com seems a little bit snappier today, there’s a reason. Last night we released a new version of the website that utilizes a Content Delivery Network (CDN) that makes browsing getpersonas.com even faster. What’s a CDN, you ask? To put it simply, a CDN moves content that normally would be served from a website [...]

Introducing Personas 2.0

he Mozilla Labs team launched Personas 1.0 with the idea that it shouldn’t be hard to make your internet browser more fun and personal. Over the past eight months, with your feedback and support, we iterated on the Personas experience and are now pleased to introduce Personas 2.0.

Personas: 10 Million and Growing

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: [...]

Introducing Favorites With Personas 1.3

We’re pleased to announce Personas 1.3, a new version of the add-on that lets you choose your favorite personas from a gallery of nearly 30,000 designs and then select them directly from your add-on. Wear them one at a time or let Personas periodically pick one at random! See a design you particularly like in [...]

Personas 1.3 release candidate, with favorites!

I’ve built a release candidate for Personas 1.3, a major update to Personas that lets you access your favorite personas from the Personas menu! The new version works in conjunction with a new version of the getpersonas.com website, which was updated last night. Barring unforeseen issues, we plan to release this version in a couple [...]