Tag 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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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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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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Hiding the CCK

In previous versions of the CCK, I provided the ability to hide and or/lock the CCK that is generated. Locking prevents the user from uninstalling the add-on, but it is rather useless since the user can still disable it. Hiding … Continue reading

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CCK Wizard Update and FAQs

I’ve updated the CCK Wizard for Firefox 3.6. It’s available here. It will be on AMO once the translations are done and if no one finds any major issues. Here’s a summary of the changes: Updated for new Firefox 3.6 … Continue reading

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Addoncon Userpoints Idea

At Addoncon, there was a lot of talk about how to compensate Firefox add-on developers. One of the ideas mentioned was some sort of user point system where points could be allocated to add-on developers by users and also based … Continue reading

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CCK Wizard Status

With the release of Firefox 3.6, people are already asking me about a new CCK Wizard. I am working on an update. You can get a beta of that here. Primary changes are more information on the proxy page, ability … Continue reading

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