Category Archives: firefox

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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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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Submitting a DMCA Takedown for a Persona

Update: I did eventually find the terms of service. You have to be logged in to getpersonas.com in order to see them. Also, the DMCA information is linked at the bottom of getpersonas.com as “Legal Notices”. Although I couldn’t find … Continue reading

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