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Announcing the Jetpack SDK: First Milestone Release

We are proud to announce the first milestone release of the Jetpack SDK. While this release demonstrates the platform’s foundations and extensibility, it does not yet provide APIs for building rich add-ons. The next set of releases will add those APIs to the SDK. This release also marks the graduation of Jetpack from a Mozilla [...]

Elevating JavaScript Performance Through GPU Power

My name is Alex. I am one of developers who helped make it possible to utilize CUDA from within Jetpack. (See the Jetpack-to-CUDA project) Andrey is Ph.D. at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, his interests include parallel computing and distributed algorithm development. The goal of this article is to share our ideas of how [...]

Evolving the Firefox Add-on Platform

Firefox’s extension platform is incredibly powerful and generative, but when I created my first extension in early 2008, I found a number of barriers to entry—difficulties echoed by a number of other newcomers I talked to. For one thing, extensions were difficult to get started with. Perhaps the best indicator of this is Myk Melez’s [...]

Announcing Jetpack 0.7

We are happy to announce the release of Jetpack 0.7. Jetpack is a Mozilla Labs project which makes it possible for anyone who knows standard web skills (HTML, Javascript, CSS) to make Firefox add-ons. Jetpack 0.7 is mainly a stability release with a new API thrown in: a unified first-run experience. Notable improvements include: debugging [...]

Enter the Jetpack 50-line Code Challenge

The Jetpack 0.6 Contest Starts Now With the release of Jetpack 0.6 just days ago, we are happy to announce a contest in its honor. The contest starts today and ends on the 13th of December. For the developer who creates the most awesome Jetpack that uses less than 50 lines of code, we are [...]

Launching the Jetpack Gallery

Hot on the tail of a major update to Jetpack, Mozilla Labs is proud to announce the launch of the Jetpack Gallery. The gallery makes it easy for developers to host and promote their Firefox Jetpack add-ons, and makes it even easier for users to find those great new features. Jetpack is a Mozilla Labs [...]