{"id":1363,"date":"2010-03-03T16:27:43","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T23:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/?p=1363"},"modified":"2010-03-03T16:27:43","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T23:27:43","slug":"the-future-of-personas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2010\/03\/03\/the-future-of-personas\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Personas"},"content":{"rendered":"

As you may already know, Personas in Firefox 3.6 has been a phenomenal success. In the past month we’ve seen millions of Firefox users discover Personas for the first time and create over 30,000 personas<\/a>. Firefox users want to customize their browser and Personas give them that ability in a simple and beautiful way. <\/p>\n

With this new-found success comes new responsibility. Personas was a Mozilla Labs experiment that has matured and graduated from Labs. Much of its process and code was for a prototype and is beginning to suffer from the overwhelming popularity in Firefox 3.6. In order for Mozilla to give Personas the support it rightly deserves changes are in order.<\/p>\n

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The biggest and greatest part of this change is migrating getpersonas.com<\/a> to addons.mozilla.org<\/a>. (Don’t worry, none of your personas or account information will be lost.) <\/p>\n

Currently getpersonas.com is built on a prototype code base and simply is not capable of supporting the features and scale we need to bring to the Personas community.<\/p>\n

Some of the benefits of moving Personas to addons.mozilla.org are:<\/p>\n