Mozilla Announces Personas 2.0

Mozilla released Personas 2.0 bringing many new features and improvements, such as a cleaner look, clearer navigation, and easier ways to discover and engage new art.


What's new in Personas 2.0:

1. Enhanced look: The site now has a cleaner look and feel, and also customizes an experience based on whether you are currently using the Personas add-on. The site also suggests more you might enjoy based on what you choose to wear.

2. New features: Integrated features like search and favorites. Also, features were added to the Personas add-on itself to make it easier for you to discover and manage your persona designs directly from the little fox in the lower left corner of your browser chrome.

3. More designs: Personas 1.0 launched with less than 150 designs. Thanks to a growing community of contributors and artists, the Personas gallery will likely welcome its 40,000th design by the end of this year. The gallery also includes affinity art from Harry Potter, Vans, Bob Marley, Lilly Pulitzer, and Greenpeace.

4. Easier discovery: The Personas gallery has been sorted by “up and coming” designs. This allows you to quickly view personas designs that are gaining popularity in the Personas community. You can also easily switch your view to sort by “popular” or “just added”.

5. Localization underway: the localization and web development teams have worked to make the site localizeable.

[via Mozilla Labs]

Halloween Personas (Themes) For Firefox

With Halloween getting closer, Mozilla has released 81 Firefox personas. This should really get you in the Halloween mood.

To use these Firefox personas, you must firstly install the Personas Firefox add-on. Or, if you are using Firefox 3.6 (like me), all you have to do is click the "Wear this" button from a persona page.

Then you can start testing some of these 81 Halloween personas.

[via mozilla links]