{"id":1885,"date":"2009-06-01T20:35:35","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T04:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mozillalabs.com\/?p=1885"},"modified":"2009-06-01T20:35:35","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T04:35:35","slug":"personasartistvisibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/2009\/06\/personasartistvisibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Personas Improves the Artist Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

Personas for Firefox<\/a> is a prototype extension that adds easy-to-style, easy-to-change skins to the browser.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since the Personas project launched, the extension has been downloaded almost 5 million<\/a> times, and the gallery has welcomed over 13,000<\/a> designs.<\/p>\n

Over the past three weeks, the Personas development team has released two updates to the project. Much of this effort was driven through community feedback, particularly from the Personas discussion group<\/a>. In the earlier release<\/a>, we enabled pagination and sharing on the site, localized the extension in additional languages, and ported Personas to Thunderbird. In the latest release, we focused on improving the experience for the Personas artists who create and share their work in the public gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Improving the Artist’s Experience
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A major goal for the Personas project is not only to scale a gallery<\/a> of art, but to give each artist a platform to create and promote their work. In the latest release, we aimed to make it even easier to create Persona art, and to enable each artist to build their presence within the gallery. With these objectives in mind, we added the following features to the project:<\/p>\n