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Jul 14, 2009

Mozilla Releases Jetpack 0.3

Mozilla's Jetpack API got another upgrade on Saturday.

Jetpack is an API launched in May that lets developers create add-ons using well-known technologies such as HTML, CSS, and Javascript, which can then be added without restarting the browser.

"There are now over 60,000 people who have the Jetpack platform extending their browsing experience," Mozilla wrote in a blog post.

Version 0.3 includes two new additions -- selections and clipboard. Selections lets you look up something on a page, like a selected word on Wikipedia. Previously, grabbing currently selected text or figuring out when a selection was made was a bit difficult, so Mozilla has simplified the process. Clipboard, meanwhile, lets you get and set text from the system clipboard.

Mozilla also added new features to slide bars, like the ability for a slide bar to notify the user of an update in a non-obtrusive way. Jetpack 0.3 also has more persistent storage and "prettier" status bars.

Users must have Firefox 3.5 before upgrading to Jetpack 0.3

Want to work firsthand with Jetpack. Mozilla said it is looking for a full-time product manager and software engineers to join Labs and work on Jetpack.

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