Jetpack/Modules

This page lists some community-developed libraries not included in the SDK. Feel free to link to yours!

Browser UI

• Prompts, by Mcepl. See function promptFileOpenPicker for a file picker prompt.
• set new-tab page content, by @dietrich
• module for interacting with Panorama, work in progress, by Mitcho.
• Badged Widgets, by @dietrich
• Extend the awesomebar, by @dietrich, or another implementation by @erikvold
• Toolbar Buttons by @erikvold, allows one to add normal buttons to toolbars, instead of widgets.
• Menuitems by @erikvold
• XUL Hotkeys by @erikvold, allows one to easily create XUL <key> elements
• User Scripts by @erikvold, allows one to compile user scripts (used by Greasemonkey and Scriptish) with their addon, or package.

Web APIs

• Add APIs to web content (ie: extending the navigator object), from Mozilla F1

Browser Internals

• Awesomebar Search - query the datasource that powers the Firefox awesomebar, by Dietrich (@dietrich)
• Browser Commands - search for and execute browser commands (eg: reload, zoom, bookmark page, open URL), by Dietrich (@dietrich)
• Custom protocol handler by Atul, or another implementation by Irakli (@gozala)
• Sync for Panorama - show synchronized devices as dedicated groups in Panorama (by @ttaubert)
• UserStyles by Erik Vold (@erikvold), allows one to add CSS to any page, including chrome URIs with user styles (used by Stylish) that they can include with their addon or package.

Async JavaScript APIs

• Actors Generators based implementation of scala like Actor's for writing calbackless async code. by Irakli (@gozala)
• Promises Promises library by kriskowal
• Experimental implementation of promises on top of ES Harmony Proxies by Irakli (@gozala)

Storage/persistence

• sqlite-jetpack by Julián Ceballos

Miscellaneous

• QR code utilities, by Hernán Colmeiro (@peregrinogris)
• Module for choosing and loading an external editor, by Dietrich (@dietrich), ported from the Ubiquity add-on
• Socket API Lib implementing nodejs's Socket API by Irakli (@gozala)
• Smarter console.log() that pretty-prints objects, by @ongaeshi (blog post)
• Localization (l10n) by Erik Vold (@erikvold), allows one to localize their addon until a better method is introduced.

Wanted

• DirectoryWatcher: polls a directory, notifies listeners of events like file added, deleted, changed, etc.
• IndexDB interface: provides a discrete module for sotring and accessing data in IndexDB, with tests!