Mozilla Labs bootstraps on another Jetpack
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Mozilla Labs has launched a new version of its Firefox web extensions package just a few days after Google opened up support for extensions in its Chrome browser.
The open source outfit has dubbed Mozilla’s Jetpack 0.5 “the bootstrap edition”.
It comes loaded with more features, API and an updated Twitter library for developers to tinker with.
The org has made installation easier for this version of Jetpack, which is an experimental project that uses open web technologies to beef up the browser and has an API that allows anyone to write Firefox add-ons, by adding a bootstrapping function to the process.
“Before this release, if as a developer you wanted people to use your jetpack, you’d first have to get them to install the Jetpack add-on and then come back to install your functionality,” said Mozilla.
“With Jetpack 0.5, we’ve greatly simplified the process. You can now provide a one-line install link which will, if the user doesn’t already have Jetpack, both install Jetpack as well as your feature.”
It’s made the process easier in the hope of encouraging more users to get involved with testing Jetpack.
Additionally, Mozilla said streaming audio data can be done in realtime mode in version 0.5.
It's also added Jetpack.music into the mix, which it said offered "the first step towards unifying" music in the cloud and on a user's desktop.
"For now, this makes media control features for Firefox easy to implement. In the future, we’ll be working on giving this ability to web content," said Mozilla. ®
COMMENTS
RE: More malware?
If we destroyed anything that allowed us access to malware the internet would have been nuked by now.
Stay calm. Have a pint.
RE: More malware?
It still has miles to go to catch up with Active-Hex in the malware vector world...
RE: More malware?
I don't see how this really makes the extension attack-surface any larger. It's always been possible to do all sorts of malicious things if you can get a user to install your extension; this just means you can have the various APIs provided by Jetpack to play your naughty games with too (any of which you could have coded into your extension earlier, if you had a mind to do so).
That's why addons.mozilla.org exists: it provides a trusted source of extensions. It has always been the case that you install extensions from elsewhere at your own peril. Relax and have a pint, things won't seem so bad!
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