Build Your Own Firefox Add-on With Jetpack

Posted on June 2, 2009 by admin

Have you ever wanted to build your own firefox add-on?, most Most people cannot build a Firefox extension, because it requires knowledge of Javascript, XUL, and XML experience. While there are about 8000 developers and 12,000 add-ons for Firefox, Mozilla is always looking to expand that base even further.

So, Mozilla has released an experimental program, Jetpack, that allows to build a Firefox add-on. This means that if you only know HTML, you can build simple extensions for the popular browser. Jetpack also supports CSS design and Javascript.

Jetpack makes one very nice change, you won’t have to restart the browser to install extensions built through Jetpack.
The Jetpack is a very early open-source project,, it’s version 0.1 so expect to see lots of bugs , it allows anyone to use an API to build status bars, work with tabs, and more. if you’re just a fan of Firefox who hates restarting his or her browser, just be patient: Jetpack is still in development, and it will be some time until restarting the browser is a thing of the past.