Introducing Jetpack, Call for Participation: This should make writing Firefox extensions even easier. […] Jetpack is an API for allowing you to write Firefox add-ons using the web technologies you already know. Jetpack will be an exploration in using Web technologies to enhance the browser (e.g. HTML, CSS and…
Storage - MDC: Reason #846 why the Firefox extension architecture is friggin’ amazing. Storage is a SQLite database API. It is available to trusted callers, meaning extensions and Firefox components only. So, your extension can store its data in a local SQLite database, stored in your Firefox profile. Awesome. SQLite,…
implement site-specific preference service: It will be interesting to see how this manifests itself, but it looks like Firefox 3 will add support for something I’ve wanted for a long time. Implement a site-specific preference service that lets callers get and set arbitrary preferences on a site-specific basis. I complained…