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Creating a Customized Firefox Distribution

You may have heard of the the Firefox Build Your Own Browser Project. On the web page, it says it “is a simple way that your organization can create and distribute a customized version of Firefox.” I think BYOB is … Continue reading

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Won’t Someone Think of the Add-on Developers?

I have been biting my tongue watching all the changes that add-on developers are being required to make for Firefox 4, but the various theme changes that are going in which are going to cause toolbar icons to be scaled … Continue reading

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Interactive Themes

So you may wonder why we called it Personas Interactive. If you were go to the Brand Thunder Gallery, you would see what we specialize in – creating customized browser experiences for different sports teams, websites, musicians and more. These … Continue reading

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Enhanced Personas

In explaining exactly what a Persona was in my last post, I mentioned that a Persona contains two images – a header and a footer. I also indicated that these images are very large – 3000 pixels wide. You may … Continue reading

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What is a Persona?

After I introduced Personas Interactive, I indicated that my next topic was going to be Enhanced Personas. As I was writing that post, though, I realized that I was putting the cart before the horse. Before I explain how we’ve … Continue reading

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Personas Interactive

Brand Thunder released a new theme for the Goblins web comic today. While it’s a great theme and I’m excited to have it out there, I’m more excited about how we’re delivering it. Goblins is the first theme we are … Continue reading

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How to Write on Glass

When I first saw the Glass add-on for Firefox, I was in awe of how well their overlays onto any web pages worked. I tried to look through the code, but couldn’t quite get a handle on what they were … Continue reading

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Customizing the Firefox Installer on Windows

One of the questions I get asked a lot is how to customize the Firefox installer on Windows and how to bundle extensions with it. I’ve spent the past few days learning a great deal about this subject, so I … Continue reading

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Chick-Fil-A and QBQ

My kids and I were supposed to go spend the day (and night) at the new Chick-fil-A in Kyle, Texas for a chance to win free Chick-fil-a for a year. To get the chance to compete, you either have to … Continue reading

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POSTing Multipart/Form-Data from an XMLHttpRequest

I’m working on an add-on where I have a need to POST JSON data to the server. Unfortunately that JSON contains ampersands, so in order to use POST, I would have to encode the data in some way that the … Continue reading

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