Labs/Jetpack

Jetpack Mission

Provide an extension development environment for the Mozilla platform that empower anyone to create powerful extensions with a set of extensible, robust APIs using the language of the web - HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Jetpack Long-Term Vision & Dependencies - Draft

	Firefox 3.6.1 - 3.7	Firefox 4.0
Extension Manager	No-Restart API	Jetpack Installation API
Firefox Platform	Chrome Object Wrappers	Jetpack runtime integrated to Firefox
Security	Basic security model in place
Dev Tools	Command-line SDK & Web-based tool - FlightDeck	Enhancements to existing tools
Packages	Generative development enabled via FlightDeck
Distribution	Jetpacks are bundled as XPIs w/ embedded Jetpack runtime in each	Jetpacks are distributed in a native package format

Jetpack Platform

• Design Guidelines
• Architecture Overview
• Glossary
• Platform FAQ
• Security Philosophy

Jetpack Production

• Development Process
• Release Process
• Release Schedule
• Jetpack Binary Components
• Jetpack Localization

Jetpack Reboot

• Main Reboot Page

JEPs - Jetpack Extension Proposals

• JEPs
• JEP Roadmap
• Pre-Reboot JEPs

Developing with Jetpack

• Getting Started
• Best Practices
• Style Guide
• FlightDeck IDE
• Documentation
• Jetpack Gallery

Getting Involved

• Jetpack Google Group
• Official Weekly Meeting
• Jetpack's Source Code
• Join us on the Jetpack IRC channel: #jetpack at irc.mozilla.org
• Report a Bug
• Jetpack Ambassador Program

Historical Notes on Jetpack Platform Development

• Memory Profiling Notes from July 2009

• Jetpack: Summer 2009 State of Security, Part 1

• Initial investigation into the capabilities used by top add-ons today, and in particular, which de facto API calls they rely upon.
  • Labs/Extensions2/Notes
  • Labs/Extensions2/Target_Add-ons