Personas Rotator

Friday, May 28, 2010

Take a tour through Personas as your Firefox tries on new looks. Discover designs or just enjoy a rotation of your favorites. Personas Rotator presents one Persona at a time for whatever time period you choose.

Personas are easy-to-use backgrounds that let you personalize the look of your Firefox. If they sound familiar, it’s probably because we’ve talked about Personas before on Rock Your Firefox. I reviewed the St. Patrick’s Day Personas as a way to keep your Firefox green, and the Nature Personas, in honor of Earth Day.

There are over 135,000 original Personas, with everything from album covers to photographs and illustrations. If you’re a fan of something, chances are there’s a Persona for the team, activity, place or theme you love. Or just pick designs that appeal to you, whether it’s because they’re pretty, thrilling, mysterious, soothing, or sentimental. The options are endless.

But with so many choices, sometimes it’s hard to know where to start. Personas Rotator gives you a way around that. Install it, turn it on, and go about your day. As long as you’re online, you don’t have to do a thing, and you’ll see all the options for dressing up your Firefox.

To get started with the Personas Rotator, you will first need to install Personas Plus which is the tool Firefox provides to manage Personas. When Personas Rotator showcases a background you like go Tools -> Personas -> the name of the current persona, at the top of the list -> View Details. From there you’ll see a button to let you “Wear this Persona”:

If you’re a regular Personas user with a My Favorites collection, Personas Rotator will rotate the Personas you love best. And no matter which collections you’re previewing, you can speed up or slow things down and preview Personas for as long as you like.

Even if you never thought you’d use a Persona, I’d recommend trying Personas Rotator just to see what you find.

Post from Elise Allen, who tries on all the clothes in her closet before she leaves her house. See all posts by Elise Allen.

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  1. EMILY

    HOW DO YOU PICK A PERSONA ?

    EMILY

    May 29th, 2010 at 7:22 pm

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  2. dado zoel

    still hard 2 download it.

    May 30th, 2010 at 2:13 am

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    May 31st, 2010 at 9:23 am

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  4. Trang

    i really like this layout but its better is it doesnt change auto. It should let people pick their own fav : )

    May 31st, 2010 at 11:49 am

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    May 31st, 2010 at 4:24 pm

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  6. Marvin Rue

    I’m a really indecisive person, so this was perfect for me. I’m always curious to see what will pop up next.

    June 4th, 2010 at 11:08 am

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  7. amankumar

    I’m a really indecisive person, so this was perfect for me. I’m always curious to see what will pop up next.

    July 9th, 2010 at 9:30 pm

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  8. Álvaro Felipe Ch.

    Like the way it changes the personas!

    Thanx a lot.

    August 5th, 2010 at 1:23 pm

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  9. Jeff Abraham

    Somehow the personalized skin got activated behind my firefox page. It is annoying and I want to go back to the basic, how do I do that?

    October 21st, 2010 at 8:44 am

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    1. Elise Allen

      Hi Jeff,

      From the “Tools” menu, choose “Add-ons”, then choose “Themes”. You should see “Default” listed. Click the “Use Theme” button under that listing.

      If you get stuck, here’s a link for that same explanation with a screenshot:

      http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Using+themes+with+Firefox?s=Themes&as=s#How_to_switch_themes

      Thanks!
      Elise

      October 24th, 2010 at 1:07 pm

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  10. Jon

    How do I add a persona to my favorite personas?

    November 1st, 2010 at 5:57 pm

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  11. Jon Smythe

    How do I add a persona to my favorites?

    November 2nd, 2010 at 10:10 am

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