Labs/Jetpack

Jetpack Draft Vision

Turn Firefox into the best platform for rapid innovation by eliminating the barrier between the desktop and the web.

Mozilla Labs - Jetpack

Jetpack is a newly formed experiment in using open Web technologies to enhance the browser, with the goal of allowing anyone who can build a Web site to participate in making the Web a better place to work, communicate and play.

In short, Jetpack is an API for allowing you to write Firefox add-ons using the web technologies you already know.

As with all Labs experiments, Jetpack is an open source project and everyone is welcome to participate in its design, development and testing.

Project News & Information

• Introducing Jetpack, Call for Participation (May 20, 2009)
• Dev/Build/Release Process
• Labs/Jetpack/Schedule

Resources for Building a Jetpack

• Jetpack Documentation
• Jetpack API Documentation, Tutorial & Demos
• Jetpack Talks and Tutorials
• Jetpacks in the Wild.

Resources for Jetpack Platform Development

• Jetpack Roadmap (Under Development)
• Jetpack Bugzilla Resources
• Jetpack Security Requirements
• Jetpack Binary Components
• Jetpack Localization
• Jetpack Proposed Extensions (JEPs) is the place to propose language and API extensions to Jetpack.

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

Getting Involved

• Discuss, debate and add to the design in the Jetpack discussion group
• Attend our Weekly Meeting
• Grab the source code and fix a bug or add a feature
• Join us in #jetpack on irc.mozilla.org
• Report a bug