Comments on: Mozilla’s Jetpack .2 Gets A Boost From The Future

By: t3n-Linktipps: Dell verdient mit Twitter, Mozilla Jetpack, Windows 7 browserlos, anonym Surfen und Startup-Ideen-Recycling » t3n Magazin

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:55:31 +0000

[...] Mozilla das neue Firefox-Erweiterungssystem Jetpack vorgestellt, da wurde es langsam Zeit für ein erstes Update. Neu in Version 0.2 sind die Slidebar, die einen schnellen Zugriff auf Informationen erlaubt, ein [...]

By: mike

mike — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:16:20 +0000

These are exciting developments, I’d been very keen to see how this takes off.

By: Leonardo

Leonardo — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:16:48 +0000

I think that the persistent data storage feature is just part of the “future” feature, meaning, one can code it, but it won’t work yet.
Please correct me if I’m wrong

By: Aubrey Alexander

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:41:19 +0000

Why not make the plugin just keep track of recently viewed videos? When you visit a page and it detects a video, it adds it to the slidebar so it’s ALREADY THERE when you open it.

By: Joseph Engo

Joseph Engo — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:35:02 +0000

Ya, but when you are like my GF who keeps 50 – 100 tabs going at all times. It really beats the crap out of the machine reloading everything after that restart.

There is also the problem with things that require sessions that don’t persist after a browser restart. Very annoying to re-log into every website.

By: Elijah Grey

Elijah Grey — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:34:54 +0000

They forgot to elaborate OS clipboard support even though it's mentioned in their blog post. The API is accessible via jetpack.os.clipboard. The wiki page says much more about how to use the system clipboard.

By: meh

meh — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:30:58 +0000

It’s equivalent to starting an application…i guess thats a pain in the ass for some people

By: jjguy

jjguy — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:21:45 +0000

Wow, Mozilla is really innovating. Firefox 3.5 looks amazing. HTML5 Video, 3d Canvas tag, Jetpack(with persistant storage extension). Can’t wait till these browsers become common place. All a whole new era of webapps will emerge. I just hope that POS known as IE will implement similar changes.

By: Jason Kincaid

Jason Kincaid — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:20:34 +0000

Ok. It’s still a pain in the ass.

By: meh

meh — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:19:20 +0000

“that browser reboot can be a real turn-off, especially when you’ve got multiple windows open. ”

When Firefox restarts after installing an addon, all your tabs are restored to their previous state.