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Mozilla Labs has announced the release of JetPack 0.7 an update to the new, simpler way of extending Firefox using common web development tools like HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Eventually Mozilla plans to incorporate JetPack into a future Firefox release, but at the moment interested developers can grab the JetPack add-on which allows JetPack to work within current version of Firefox. Yes, for now JetPack is an add-on to install add-ons.
JetPack is designed to make it easy for anyone with basic web developer skills to build Firefox extensions. While JetPack was innovative when Mozilla first announced it, in the time since Google’s Chrome browser has added an extension system which works on the same principles as JetPack — using web-based tools like HTML and CSS. It would be nice if Chrome extensions would work with JetPack and vice versa, but differences between the underlying browsers mean that such compatibility is unlikely.
Jetpack is still an experimental Labs project, but the 0.7 release sees JetPack moving closer to a stable project. Among the new features in this release are a unified first-run API that explains JetPack for new users, as well as some improvements to UI elements like status bar widgets. The latest version also restores the debugging features available through Firebug.
There are also quite a few more working JetPack extensions available than last time we checked in with JetPack, including a very handy tool for web developers, CSS Refresh, which can refresh the CSS on a page without reloading the whole page.
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