We are very happy to see Personas makes our Firefox changing the look as easy as we change shirts. Mozilla Labs expanded its effort to help us to do so. Unique styles and tastes are now here individually shown up. Personas are free and easy-to-install skins for Firefox. With Persona, easily individualize Firefox with millions of favorite designs in new categories, sports, stars, fashions and music.

Mozilla Labs continually experienced on Personas since 2007 and now it released a new way to quickly and easily personalize the online experience. Basically, Personas developed in three concepts. Firstly, a little more fun and personal browser design. After the installation, select the one reflecting you most to be a browser design. The alternation would not interrupt any web activities. Secondly, instant great design effects. No matter what you are browsing, homepage, blog or even instant messenger, the design will follows you in each and every point once you get an entire online browser experience. Famous brands also included, such as Greenpeace, Cynthia Rowley, All American Rejects, and LIVESTRONG. Finally is the personal design ability presentation. You are encouraged to show your ability and would be getting more promotion in Personas. Don't you want to show your idea and want to anybody shares with you? Once you've creating your design, upload it to the design gallery, people will certainly discover and further make relevant reactions.

As always, the Personas will reflect our personality, interests and passions. We would like to see more steps to expand the catalog of available designs in Personas.

Would you like your Mozilla Firefox to look like this? In this "how-to-do" article I will tell you the way to make your Firefox look minimalist by means of two add-ons which will maximize the web visualization space. The first one will minimize the menus, and the second one will give Firefox the ability to hide the tab bar.

Tiny Menu Add-on for Firefox
The first thing to do is downloading Tiny Menu add-on from Firefox Add-ons site or download it from BrotherSoft.

Once you have downloaded and installed the add-on, you will have to restart Firefox. You can configure it by selecting which menus are going to be collapsed or not and if the menu will be just text or an image. In this case I selected the text just because I like it more. You get to this window through menu/tools/add-ons/extensions.

Now, you have to right click and customize the toolbar; then you can drag the buttons up into the menu bar and finally right click on the bar and disable Navigation and Bookmarks toolbars provided they are empty by now. Read the rest of this entry »

Password managers add a new level of security to web browsers. The default way of handling passwords in web browsers is to let the user pick the username and password for a website. It is up to the user to pick a secure password so that his account cannot be brute-forced by hackers. We all know that many users like to pick passwords that they can remember easily.

Password Managers take the burden away by offering password generators that can generate a secure password in the form Bg6gX5!gff4 for the user. That's not all that they can do though and this article will review one of the popular Firefox password managers.

LastPass is an add-on for Firefox that provides password manager functionality after installation. What makes it special is the ability to import all passwords that have been saved in Firefox during setup. This means that all your old passwords will be stored in the password manager. Import is not only available for Firefox passwords but also for Internet Explorer, RoboForm or KeePass passwords.

This takes one of the burdens away from the user as all of his old passwords will still be working as usual after switching from the Firefox password manager to LastPass.

One of the main new features of the password manager is the password generator.

A link to the password generator will show up on top of the browser window on every registration page that you encounter. Another option is to access the secure password generator with a hotkey. It can be configured to use a specific password length and to include upper case, lower case, numbers and special chars. It is important that the choices are available as some websites restrict the characters of passwords. Read the rest of this entry »