Iron Man persona for Firefox
Posted by Percy Cabello on May 4th, 2008 • Tags:
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Despite my worst expectations, the Iron Man movie proved to be a very entertaining one, a good story, perhaps the best told for a comic character based movie so far, fast paced, appropriate special effects. In sum, recommended.

If you also enjoyed the movie, here’s an Iron Man persona for you. You will need Personas 1.0 alpha 1, Mozilla Labs’ Firefox extension that allows to set a background for the toolbars and the status bar.

Once installed:

  1. Click on the Personas icon in the status bar, and select Preferences. Press the Custom Persona Editor… button
  2. For the header, enter http://www.mozillalinks.org//download/personas/ironman_header.png
  3. For the footer,  http://www.mozillalinks.org//download/personas/ironman_footer.png
  4. Change the font color to something suitable, like gold.
  5. To allow more of the background to be seen, add this line to your userChrome.css file:

#nav-bar { padding-right: 150px !important; }

That’s it!

Comments
Volkan said on May 4, 2008, 4:05 pm:

I wonder if there is something wrong with my Persona plug-in but I don’t see a Preferences option. I even tried uninstalling/reinstalling, and checking for latest versions to no use. I am using version 0.9.2….

r2r said on May 4, 2008, 7:09 pm:

When I click on the Personas Icon in statusbar, there isn’t a “Preferences” option to select. What gives?

Matt said on May 4, 2008, 10:42 pm:

i don’t have a preferences button in my personas menu?

Percy Cabello said on May 5, 2008, 10:08 am:

To all, my bad. I should have mentioned that the option to set a custom image (or even a web page) for the backgrounds is available on Personas 1.0 alpha 1, available from Mozilla Labs: http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/03/major-update-to-personas-for-firefox/

I’ll update the article accordingly. Thanks for sharing.

Andrew said on May 5, 2008, 11:22 am:

This is great! but I can’t get the status bar to work :( It also looks kind of weird with the default Vista theme (3 beta 5) but I can find away around it

Simon Proctor said on May 6, 2008, 7:59 am:

Just to note the link for the footer has the wrong domain name. It’s linking to http://www.mozillalinksorg without the ‘.’

The link you want is:
http://www.mozillalinks.org/download/personas/ironman_footer.png

Percy Cabello said on May 6, 2008, 9:51 am:

Thanks Simon. Corrected.

DieAboLik said on June 14, 2008, 12:46 pm:

How exactly do I add the line to userChrome.css?

yo said on April 5, 2009, 2:24 pm:

how exactly do i get to userchrome.css?

alex vonrapacki said on May 6, 2009, 11:16 am:

when does ironman2 comes out in the movies