Fashion Your Firefox

By Digital Trends Staff November 18, 2008

Fashion Your Firefox

Mozilla says there are around five thousand separate add-ons for the Firefox browser, and over a billion add-ons have been downloaded to date. So now they’ve come up with Fashion Your Firefox, a novel tool to provide users with a custom set of add-ons.

Are you into music? Try the ‘Rock Star’ bundle, as a way to listen to and discover new music. There are also bundles for Decorators, Social Butterflies and others. It’s cute, but also fairly practical, according to David Rolnitzky, program manager in charge of add-ons for Firefox.

"In essence, it’s like having a shopping cart that you can use to select any add-on from the Fashion Your Fox collection, ‘check-out’ with just one click, and after a quick Firefox restart, have a whole new browser that’s made just for you."

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