Little Known Ways to Create Your Own Personas Theme
If you’re a Firefox user, and have lately updated to the newest version, you might have seen the new Personas addition. Personas is new Firefox feature that lets you to dress up Firefox and give it your own personal touch. The Personas website, features a massive number of Firefox themes to pick from. When applied, these themes will insert a background to the top and bottom of Firefox windows.
Firefox Personas have been exist for quite a while now; however it took the latest version of Firefox, that encouraged updaters to take a Persona, for Personas to get any popularity.
After browsing through the different Personas have listed on the site, there is a great chance that you’ll get one that suits your own style. There are more than 30,000 different themes to pick from let you dress up your browser towards music, arts, television, fashion, abstracts and so on.
To preview a theme, simply mouse over the thumbnail for that according Persona. From there, Firefox would automatically deliver your browser window a full preview look. If you wanna use a Persona, simply click on the Wear It button.
Create Your Own Personas Theme
As you might be able to see from the above images, the majority of Personas have been made by Firefox users. After you know how to dress up Firefox using Persona, we will jump to next steps of designed your own, should you want a really custom Firefox theme.
From its homepage, there is a link titled “Create Your Own”, placed on the top of the page. Simply click this link to start.
The next page provides you a well general overview of what is needed to create your own. Essentially, Firefox Persona themes made up of a pair of images, a header, as well as a footer. A Persona header should be of PNG or JPG format and images can NOT be larger than 3000px width and 200px height. Following is the default image that they provide as an example for the header:
While the footer have to be of PNG or JPG format and it can’t be larger than 3000px of width and 100px height. Following is the default image;
Now, it’s time to make your own persona. It’s strongly recommended that you download the sample header and footer, thus you can use them as your guide, ensuring that you get the dimensions fitly. By make use of image editors, you can simply paste your image over the sample and save it as a new image.
The next steps is submitting your own Persona for included on the Firefox Personas website. You will see that there are 4 steps to creating a full Persona. First to third steps simply detail the requirements for creating your own persona, while the last step, step 4, lets you to submit your persona directly to Firefox for approval.
You have to create a free account if you’d like the persona to be included on the website. As the submitting process is a 4 step wizard, we would skip that and tell you how to really create your own Firefox Persona.
Install the Personas add-on
To get started, you have to install the Personas add-on, which you can get from the website. After navigating to the add-on page, please be sure that you’ve install the add-on and restart Firefox, thus it is activated.
Wear Your New Persona
To wear your new persona: You must get a little Fox head icon in the bottom left side of your Firefox window. Simply click on it and choose preferences. Please be sure that there is a check mark in the box “Show Custom Persona in menu“. After that, click the Fox head once again and choose Custom Persona > Edit.
This will carry you to the Custom Persona screen where you’re able to upload your images and change font colors to look better with the new persona. After you already everything set the way you desire it, simply click on the OK button. Here is an example.
That’s all there is to it. You have to now be able to select a persona from the Firefox website and wear it, or even make your own if you want.