Mozilla Upgrades Jetpack Browser Booster

From PC World: Jetpack, Mozilla Labs' open source technology for building functional add-ins to personalize the Firefox browser, has been fitted with more capabilities in an upgrade detailed over the weekend, including enhancements to the SlideBar information access capability.

Jetpack 0.1 was introduced in May. Mozilla touted the Jetpack 0.3 upgrade on Saturday.

"There are now over 60,000 people who are using the Jetpack platform to extend their browsing experience, and many of these Jetpacks have been written by first-time extension developers," said Atul Varma and Aza Raskin on behalf of the Jetpack development team, in a blog post.

Improvements include a revised API for SlideBars, which enable access to information at the side of a browser window. Mozilla also added the ability for a SlideBar to notify the user of an update in a non-obtrusive way. The SlideBar API in version 0.3, however, is incompatible with the previous API. All SlideBar-based Jetpacks must be updated, Mozilla said.

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