Personas, Personalize your Firefox Appearance

PERSONAS

maybe you’ve user Personas. This just a share for you that might not hear, or interested to use Personas.

PERSONAS

What is Personas?
Personas is a new feature for mozilla firefox(version 3.6) skin, it’s more like add-on theme that can be download to your Firefox, but with more easier to use. With a couple of clicks, personas is ready. Up to now, there’s thousands personas from Firefox users all around the globe, you can choose any picture that fit yourself.

How to use Personas?
First, enter  Personas website, then click "Download" button, Personas will automatically download appropriate files to your firefox. then restart your firefox after installation complete. Enter to Galeri Personas. You just point your mouse to the picture you like, then automatically firefox change it’s appearance. Very easy eh?

Can we make our own Personas?
Of course, you can! This is a feature to share between personas user all over the world,

How to make our own Personas:
1. Header

Requirement:
* Dimension 3000px wide x 200px high (If more, it won’t be approved)
* PNG or JPG file format
* Max  filesize 300kb

2. Footer

Requirement:
* Dimension 3000px wide x 100px high
* PNG or JPG file format
* Max filesize 300kb

3. Can be tested offline

4. Upload

Note: Before upload, you should log-in first, sign up if you haven’t, here
After login, upload here : Upload Personas

What is The Fastest Browser today?

After Firefox 3.6 Released, another web browsers such as Google Chrome and Opera is  released their improved version too. Of course, this is advantage condition for users, because they can choose web browser which fit their need, fastest, stablest, and lightest…

LifeHacker recently test that web browsers performance. How is the result?

The test result shows that there’s no single browser which powerful in all criteria. But above all, Google Chrome (my favorite browser) shows the highest score. Congratulation!.

Boot-up dan Warm loading; Winner : Opera !

This test to know the speed of browser opening. Loading time with cold start (run after computer power button pushed) and warm start (restarting without turning the computer off). (graph: shorter, better)

Tab Loading; Winner: Google Chrome (stable)!

This test done by opening 9 web browser tab simultanously and count on how fast its respond. (graph: shorter, better)

Javascript; Winner: Opera 10.5 Pre-Alpha

Test to see how fast a javascript code being executed  (graph: longer, better)

DOM/CSS; Winner: Chrome (Dev)!

CSS now is something that cannot be separated from a website. In this test, Google Chrome is most superior from other web browser (graph: longer, better)

Memory Usage, without Feature addition; Winner : Firefox 3.6!

If your computer memory is limited, firefox can be your answer. Firefox proven to be most memory friendly, although they need almost 100 MB. Google Chrome 4 (Stable), is the best in memory consumption!.  (graph: shorter, better)

Memory Usage with extension; Winner : Firefox 3.6

With the addition of Extension, Firefox 3.6 still show the smallest memory consumption.

Final Result

With all tests above, final score for each browser is as follows (excluding test with memory extension). Maximum score : 35.

* Google Chrome 4.0.302.3 (dev): 25
* Google Chrome 4.0.249.78 (stable): 24
* Firefox 3.6: 20
* Firefox 3.5.4: 21
* Opera 10.5 Pre-Alpha: 25
* Opera 10.01: 15
* Safari 4.0.4: 19

Although Google Chrome is not powerful in all criteria, but it’s score is highest. You should consider Firefox if your memory is limited. But now, I think, memory is not a problem anymore.

Nice Firefox Wallpaper

I bet you’ve know about Mozilla. Allow me to tell anybody who didn’t know about it.

Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. Firefox had 21.53% of the recorded usage share of web browsers as of January 2009, making it the second-most popular browser in current use worldwide, after Internet Explorer.^[4] (taken from Wikipedia)