Personas Fail

[Helpmeh]

I created a custom persona by combining the header from one and the footer from another, however my custom persona will only stay active if the Edit Custom Persona tab is open (chrome://personas/content/customPersonaEditor.xul)...once it closes, (even if I hit OK), the persona will revert to whatever it was previously (but the Personas menu still says that the custom persona is active).

[Helpmeh]

Turns out, this is an issue with the personas addon...and that I'm not the only one:

http://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla/topics/custom_personas_bug_fixed_in_ff3_6_3
http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla-labs-personas/browse_thread/thread/8f868ff8875104b3

...and also that it has been reported to mozilla.

[soybean]

I created a custom persona by combining the header from one and the footer from another, however my custom persona will only stay active if the Edit Custom Persona tab is open (chrome://personas/content/customPersonaEditor.xul)...once it closes, (even if I hit OK), the persona will revert to whatever it was previously (but the Personas menu still says that the custom persona is active).

You mentioned Chrome and you mentioned Mozilla. Are you referring to Chrome or Firefox?

[Helpmeh]

You mentioned Chrome and you mentioned Mozilla. Are you referring to Chrome or Firefox?

I am not referring to Google Chrome. Look here for information about the chrome:// URLS used in Firefox.

[soybean]

Well, thanks but I don't quite see the point of them yet.  Can you give a general explanation of their purpose?

[rthompson80819]

I'm on my second glass of wine which could be a part of the problem, but this makes no sense to me at all.

This references Firefox 1.0.  Did Mozilla use the term chrome before Google released the browser Chrome?

How is a chrome URL different than an ordinary URL?

[Helpmeh]

Well, thanks but I don't quite see the point of them yet.  Can you give a general explanation of their purpose?

Chrome URLS are pretty much like shortcuts to internal browser files.

This references Firefox 1.0.

I just searched for "chrome url firefox -google" and it was a link I found.

[BC_Programmer]

Chrome is the UI that results from Firefox's XUL parser. In the case of URLs it's probably just used as a synonym for User Interface.

[rthompson80819]

This is actually kind of funny.  Who would have guessed that so many software terms would come from the movie Ghostbusters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XUL