AI develops a new-generation plug-in system for Firefox

According to foreign media reports, Mozilla lab is conducting a new project named Jetpack. Mozilla hopes to change the collaboration between users and websites and better manage third-party plug-ins.

In short, Jetpack is designed to enable developers to create toggle code packages without requiring end users to restart their browsers. In the current Firefox plug-in system, such functions cannot be implemented, but Firefox can be implemented through a third-party tool such as Greasemonkey.

Every time you upgrade your browser, Jetpack keeps the code generated by developers intact. This problem has been plagued by developers and has been affected by Firefox plug-in development for many years. Due to this problem, developers are forced to only slightly change the Firefox plug-in. If the development of a plug-in takes too long, the developer will have to stop. In the new system, no matter what you install, the Jetpack plug-in will run

In the Jetpack introduction video, Aza Raskin, head of user experience at Mozilla lab, presented the functionality of this tool. In the first part of the video, Aza Raskin presents a simple ad blocking tool. Users can enable and disable this tool to ensure that the browser loads the webpage of certain advertisers. In the second part, he demonstrated how to make the custom code in other parts of the web page to achieve the same effect.

In addition, Jetpack gives users better control over what they see on their websites and fully interacts with the content. For example, Ubiquity is another development project). When a user accesses a website using the Jetpack control, the plug-in can be put in the user's hands. That is to say, the user does not need to search for plug-ins in the plug-in options.

However, the current Jetpack 0.1 version is not perfect.

1. Firefox will surpass IE in 2013
2. New skin designer for Opera 10.0 Alpha
3. Microsoft IE9 began to develop and solicit user feedback