Personas Rotator
Personas Rotator is a new companion for Personas Firefox add-on to change your beloved Personas skins periodically on Firefox. What Will Your Browser Wear Now?
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Personas Rotator is a new companion for Personas Firefox add-on to change your beloved Personas skins periodically on Firefox. What Will Your Browser Wear Now?
Sure would have been nice to implement a function that would rotate only the personas the user has in his favourites…
Hi DaMachk,
Next version will support favourites.
Whoa…
Fast update is fast, i like it
I’d love to see this working with the built-in Personas of Firefox 3.6… Anyway, thanks for the awesome add-on!
I tried installing this with version 3.6 and it says it is not compatible. Any ideas?
Hello,
Personas Rotator is compatible with Firefox 3.6. Have you installed Personas? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10900
Cool add-on!
I’d like to have the option of setting how long between skin changes. Right now it seems to be going too quickly. Would be fine if it just changed it at start up, or once per hour…..
Hello Tamie,
Personas Rotator already supports changing the interval time between skin changes. Just click the Personas statusbar icon and hover over Personas Rotator menu and click on Options to change the settings.
Here is a complete How to Use Guide tutorial:
http://barisderin.com/?p=119
Great plugin, recommended to all Personas users. (Thanks for sharing)
Suggestion for an enhancement: an menu item for “Rotate Now”, sometimes the random selected theme is not what you want and you want to change it and don’t wait till the plugin will rotate it for you.
Keep going and have a nice weekend.
I really like this idea, but the extension seems to be unable to log in to the Personas site to access the My Favorites category. Even after logging in, selecting Favorites as an option for the rotation causes the extension to tell me I’m not logged in.
Hi EiltDruin,
Strange. This is the first time someone reported such a problem. It is supposed to log in without any problem. Maybe you have a Firefox cache problem.
I really want this, having a gazillion skins installed, but it’s not working.
I’m new to Firefox, so please bear with me. I installed it, but it’s greyed out with an exclamation point on the extentions page. It says “requires additional items.”
Is there a way to have a bunch of the persona themes installed at the same time?
Hi Jane,
Personas Rotator is a new companion for Personas. Therefore you need to first install the Personas and then Personas Rotator:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10900
I am running into a bug. I have rotator 0.3 running on “My favorites” and the interval is every 60 seconds. My problem is that it is only rotating the most recent (last selected) 42 favorites from getpersonas.com .
Hi reddar,
Thanks for the report. I will check that out and create a workaround if possible.
Is it possible to add a ‘fade’ feature to the rotator so one persona fades to the next? Would be awesome!
I love this. Probably one of the best extensions I’ve ever installed.
One thing I’d like, though is for the rotator to update when I change my favorites.
For example, I’ll remove a persona from the “my favorites” tab on getpersonas.org, and it still shows up on the rotation.
Just a little idea I had.
I could try unistalling and re-installing it, but I don’t think that should be necessary.
Other than that, this is simply an amazing extension.
Absolutely great. Would you extend it to support Thudnerbird too, I need it there more as I spend more time reading mail. Waiting for the update. Thank you (y)
all added personas being downloaded to themes, there will be hundreds by the end of the day. Is there a way to change personas without downloading them to themes section?
Hi Kewl,
I may add the thunderbird support for the next versions.
About theme download problem: It is actually a problem of Personas Plus. You know Personas Rotator works in combination with Personas Plus. So it is actually difficult to change a behaviour of another add-on from Personas Rotator. But I will try to create a workaround if possible.
Can I rotate some of my offline custom personas or specify the folder that contains personas images?
Currently it is not available. Maybe in future versions.
One more thing- is it possible to not download the themes I don’t want when cycling through? I find it slightly annoying.
Hello Tim,
If you sign in Getpersonas.com and add some personas to your favorites, you will get a certain order collection if you choose the Rotation Category as My Favorites from Personas Rotator options. That way only the personas you want be cycled and downloaded.
Amazing extension. Is a must have
I have a problem, and i think im not the only one. When y choose a category in the Rotator options it only rotates in the top Personas from that category, an there are the same as appear in Tools > Personas > All > [any category]. Is this a limitation from Personas? cause it cycle over and over on the same 10 Personas. Thank you a lot!
Hello Agustin,
Thanks.
It is the limitation of Personas Plus, not the Personas Rotator. Personas Plus bundles 10 personas for each category so the Personas Rotator cycles the personas available.
Actually you are requesting fetching personas from GetPersonas.com. But this feature should be implemented by Personas Plus but I will have look at what can I do.
The best way to use the add-on is having an account of GetPersonas.com and adding personas to My Favorites.
Really awesome!!!
It would be cool if you can make a rotator for your browser background app too. I have that as well and love it
it’s cool to have this……….esp.when your bored of the plain white browser of yours…:))
Persona changes when restarting firefox even after setting intervals. Please fix it so it won’t change each time firefox is restarted. Great addon, thank you. ( still waiting for Thunderbird support ;P )
Oh no! just read Baris Derin’s post about the 10 personas’ limitation, this is really frustrating! this is exactly what i hated about persona plus. it makes this addon useless except for choosing the interval. Please find a way to fetch personas form getpersonas.com, from the whole collection rather than only 10, if it’s possible, now that would be what this addon should do and it would be perfect then. Waiting for the next version. Thank you again.
Nice, but it seems like the personas are not truly random. According to the menu, there are over 100,000 (!) personas in the All category. But yet, I get a lot of repeats. (I do not have anything in My Favorites.)
this is a really great add-on mr derin but i was wondering if there was a way for personas rotator to change personas only when you open firefox instead of with the set time
I’m too am disappointed that the rotation isn’t truly random. I was really hoping to get a broad taste of the variety of personas out there since I don’t currently use the “favorites” feature. Would love to see any improvement in this area.
I love this add-on, variety is good plus you get to try personas without having to browse through thousands of them. Keep up the good work. I was just wondering if there was a way to only rotate what I have installed already in my Firefox?
Hello xLazyJx,
I hope to add such a functionality in next versions of Personas Rotator.
Personas rotator is a very good idea!! It just need a few more things:
This is my “wish list” to personas rotator:
-A button on the bar to change to the next persona (for example, if I choose “all” categories, there are some personas I didn’t like, so it would be nice if I can change it with one click)
-A way to choose more than one category to rotate (for example with checkboxes)This is because sometimes there are more than one category I like, but there are only one option in that case: Choosing all categories (which is not a solution, because I really don’t want to rotate between every of them).
Hi Baris Derin,
I’ve just installed persona plus and persona rotator, and I’m happy to see personas changing every minute.
I’ve also read your message about the next version which will support favourites or personas already installed (because there are many personas on the web and they’re all installing on my computer ^^), but I wonder about the development of this version. I don’t mean I want the new version now, but only know at which part of the developement you are.
Thanks to you, for your great work.
PS : And please excuse my bad English, I learn.
PS2 : Please erase my older message, I just want to change a phrase.
Hi Thebigpotato,
It is currently supported. If you sign in Getpersonas.com and add some personas to your favorites, you will get a certain order collection. Then you should choose the Rotation Category as My Favorites from Personas Rotator options. That way only the personas you want be cycled and downloaded.
PS: Personas Rotator Options are placed in Personas Plus menu which is available via left click to Personas status-bar icon.
Yes, I’ve Installed Personas Plus (named Personas 1.5.3 in my installed extensions), and I’ve tested to select My Favourites in the Personas Rotator menu, but it ask me to login to the site, even if I’m already logged.
What have I to do ?
The “rotate next” function it’s working perfectly!!
I just wonder if you can make a button to put it on the toolbar
Thanks!!
nice add-on , i really like it thank’s
Hey,Baris Derin When is the next version come out?
That,s nice it is so looking rock……….
very nice
I would like to see this working, without me having to do to much
stan
I am very new at this and very excited to learn as I venture, make mistakes and learn by my mistakes. This is going to be a good experience fo me.
Would it be possible to allow the user to make their own folders other than their favorites
Awesome addon … only complain I have is that the personas rotator isn’t random enough .. It just rotates between the first 20 personas from each selection
Este programita lo instalo Luis José Amézquita
Nice work. Thanks.
Two feature requests, check boxes for Rotation Category, the Fashion category has some swimsuit models that aren’t appropriate for my work. I can only select one or all.
Second would be cut down on the repeats. There are 170K+ personas and I shouldn’t be seeing the same ones more than once a week.