Comments for Xulforge Blog

Comment on Running multiple Firefox instances on Mac OS by joh

joh — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 21:59:05 +0000

Thanks helped me out a lot.

Comment on Extending the New Developer Toolbar by jorge

jorge — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:32:13 +0000

The developer tools are pretty much independent from the rest of Firefox. They don’t make Firefox any less lightweight.

Comment on Extending the New Developer Toolbar by some one

some one — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 10:25:32 +0000

I wish Mozilla would create a separate developer tool and make a regular lightweight Firefox.

Comment on Extending the New Developer Toolbar by Mike Ratcliffe

Mike Ratcliffe — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 10:45:24 +0000

Your imgur command awesome!

I was going to create something similar recently until I noticed a low limit on the number of uploads per day. There is some documentation on writing commands at:
https://github.com/mozilla/gcli/blob/bug-665861/docs/index.md#writing-commands

/Mike Ratcliffe

Comment on Should we fix Personas? by Nem

Nem — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 16:39:52 +0000

I agree with Tomer about supporting CSS in order to enable the designer to have full control of the image position and sizing.

Comment on Should we fix Personas? by Michael Kaply

Michael Kaply — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:03:45 +0000

I wrote a similar post:

http://mike.kaply.com/2012/03/06/reimagining-personas-background-themes/

And even contacted Justin and put together an Etherpad with suggestions, but it never got any traction.

I even offered to own Personas.

I think at this point no one really cares, which is sad.

Comment on Should we fix Personas? by Alfred Kayser

Alfred Kayser — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 07:14:19 +0000

The third biggest problem of Persona(s) is that they don’t support Themes.

Comment on Should we fix Personas? by Simon

Simon — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 23:36:20 +0000

Personally, I don’t see why they even exist as a core part of Firefox. I know one person in an office of 50+ who actually uses themes, yet it’s a feature that’s seen a great deal of attention over the past year or two.

Comment on Should we fix Personas? by jorge

jorge — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 22:25:41 +0000

Reviewing Personas right now (or at least when I was helping out) is a very easy and basic task. Wouldn’t packaging them put reviewing them on AMO Editors?

Not really. As long as we can tell a Persona apart, it can be sent to Personas reviewers to deal with it. I definitely don’t want AMO Editors reviewing Personas.

And wouldn’t it open a new door for hackers and security issues?

Not as long as we don’t allow any code in them. The Add-ons Manager would just need to load images (which already happens with Personas) and a few simple metadata bits. Any additional stuff in the package, malicious or not, could be easily detected and/or ignored.

How about creating a Persona Generator (official Mozilla or Jorge one) that would generate a restartless add-on?

Packaging Personas as actual extensions does open up all the problems you mention above.

Comment on Should we fix Personas? by Ken Saunders

Ken Saunders — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 22:08:14 +0000

I agree with you about the issues completely and I was always puzzled by the fact that Personas were so heavily promoted and featured by Mozilla just to have them become barely worth using and creating when the UI was shrunk down obscuring them.
It was as if two teams were on two different pages.

I like the idea of allowing some CSS options for designers. Especially killing text-shadow, adjusting opacity of tabs and tab bar, and font color. More often than not, text looks blurry on menu items and tabs with text-shadow.
I’m not sure about packing them as extensions though.

Reviewing Personas right now (or at least when I was helping out) is a very easy and basic task. Wouldn’t packaging them put reviewing them on AMO Editors?
And wouldn’t it open a new door for hackers and security issues?

How about creating a Persona Generator (official Mozilla or Jorge one) that would generate a restartless add-on? Perhaps something along the lines of the Add-on Packager and Persona Editor combined?