Mozilla finds new ways to skin a Firefox

 

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By Stuart Turton

Posted on 1 Apr 2009 at 10:07

Mozilla has unveiled a range of new skins for Firefox, allowing greater personalisation of the popular browser.

Several of the new skins are from well-known brands including All American Rejects, Lady Gaga and No Doubt, which tends to push the browser a little too far towards the Heat-buying crowd for our tastes.

However, the interesting part is not actually the skins themselves, but the Persona interface that allows you to access them.

Persona is installed like any normal add-on and puts a small fox icon in the lower right-hand side of the screen. Clicking this icon brings up a list of categories, including sports and fashion, from which the user can select one of numerous new skins for their browser.

Highlighting a specific skin on the list offers a live preview, so that users can easily flick through the options.

Anybody who wants to dabble with their skin can find out more about Personas here.