Mozilla Handing Out Jetpacks, Not What You Think
Mozilla Handing Out Jetpacks, Not What You Think
Posted 05/22/2009 at 7:03am
| by Paul Lilly
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Mozilla announced it will start giving away Jetpacks to users, but you can't use them to fly around your neighborhood or to stir up general mayhem. So what exactly can you do with it?
"Specifically, Jetpack will be an exploration n using web technologies to enhance the browser (e.g. HTML, CSS, and JavaScript), with the goal of allowing anyone who can build a website to participate in making the web a better place to work, communicate, and play," Mozilla wrote in a blog.
Oh. Well that's cool too, we suppose. Apparently, Jetpack will be the tool for building the next generation of add-ons, and according to Mozilla, they can be written "in under a dozen lines of code." But it's not just developers who should be excited.
"More importantly, from a user-perspective, Jetpack will allow new features to be added to the browser without a restart co compatibility issues, resulting in little to no disruption to the online experience," Mozilla added.
Color us officially excited again.
Image Credit: Mozilla
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Denis63
May 22, 2009 at 10:54am
Addons rule! and making it easier to make them makes it even better! it never hurts to have more of a selection of a good thing!!! Firefox, FTW!
-Denis
linux_dork
May 22, 2009 at 8:04am
Ummmm...
So Jetpack will let hackers just add whatever they want to your browser, instantly, with no need to restart it? Sounds great...
Hamerlock
May 22, 2009 at 10:56am
Its funny what happens when someone attempts to attack your favorite browser how defensive you can get. Had Microsoft said they were doing this for IE you all would have agreed with this comment.
shutout5591
May 22, 2009 at 10:24am
This fool probably uses a text only browser to prevent hackers from "displaying any image they want in the website". Go to amish land and churn butter.
Jetpack sounds pretty awesome to me.
linux_dork
May 26, 2009 at 8:37am
LOL I guess because my name is "linux_dork" you all think I'm just anti-everything that isn't text mode and linux. I just use Firefox because it works the best on my computer (which has Linux). I use a lot of add-ons, only I've made a concious choice to download each and every one of them. I don't want web pages to try to download them "for" me to "enhance" each websites idea of a "good user experience".
Every trojan horse and virus on your computer has downloaded without your knowledge or permission anyway, through your browser. It just seems that JetPack will add yet another "easy in" for our computers.
That's all. It's a valid point. Down boy, down.
metric_inch
May 22, 2009 at 8:37am
Yup becuase hackers can also install add-ons to your browser without you doing anything. DOH.
This is just a new way of doing add-ons. My guess is a new type of xpi file, (maybe a new extension) will only contain .html, .js and .css files which can be installed and refreshed without requiring a browser restart. They will still need user interaction to get onto the pc in the first place.
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