Filed under: Mozilla, Open Source, Beta, Browsers
New Jetpack add-on puts any web page in the slidebar
The Mozilla Jetpack "In the Wild" page seems to get a little bigger every day. Mozilla is rightfully proud of the fledgling project, and for good reason. Jetpack brings no-restart add-on installation to Firefox and it opens development to a huge base of coders since they need only know HTML, CSS, and Javascript.
Any Webpage Slidebar is a good example of what Jetpack can do in a very limited amount of code. In 10 lines, the developer has created a way for you to embed, well, any page you want into the Slidebar.
Paste the URL into the Any Webpage generator and set your desired width in pixels, and submit. The install button will appear on the next page. Click install, and you can pop out your page at any time by clicking the blue Jetpack arrow.
To test, I used Dabr - a web-based Twitter client optimized for mobile browsing - which is well-suited to being crammed into a 300-pixel wide column.
It's not quite as slick as Opera's dead-simple click and drag to panels, but it's a simple, effective way to make better use of your widescreen real estate in Firefox.
Any Webpage Slidebar is a good example of what Jetpack can do in a very limited amount of code. In 10 lines, the developer has created a way for you to embed, well, any page you want into the Slidebar.
Paste the URL into the Any Webpage generator and set your desired width in pixels, and submit. The install button will appear on the next page. Click install, and you can pop out your page at any time by clicking the blue Jetpack arrow.
To test, I used Dabr - a web-based Twitter client optimized for mobile browsing - which is well-suited to being crammed into a 300-pixel wide column.
It's not quite as slick as Opera's dead-simple click and drag to panels, but it's a simple, effective way to make better use of your widescreen real estate in Firefox.
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216 said 10:12AM on 6-18-2009
whoaaa what theme is that?
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Paul said 10:21AM on 6-18-2009
Yes, what theme is that? Is pretty cool.
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Lee Mathews said 11:19AM on 6-18-2009
I'm using Two Dimensions right now...I started using it on Crunchbang last week and decided to use it on Windows too.
Danny Boy said 10:54AM on 6-18-2009
Thanks for the tip, but I also still prefer Opera's dead simple method.
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Lee Mathews said 11:15AM on 6-18-2009
The only downside is that non-Opera users can't use it ;)
milrtime83 said 12:04PM on 6-18-2009
Yes, but people that use Opera seem to have to take any sort of opportunity to let other people know that they do.
Danny Boy said 6:40PM on 6-18-2009
@milrtime83
Well, we only do so because 1) Opera rarely gets "air-time" for its features, and 2) when FF plugins get featured, the write-ups make it sound like it's a totally new innovation, when sometimes it was "inspired" by features in other browsers. It serves as a useful corrective to the internet media's almost blind love to the greatness of FF.
Lee Mathews said 6:41PM on 6-18-2009
Let's find some common ground...
Both Firefox and Opera have three vowels in their name. w00t!
Danny Boy said 6:35AM on 6-19-2009
Yes, common ground is better. Both are non-MS products. :)
Jaren L said 2:38AM on 6-19-2009
Uh, is this particularly different from just bookmarking a site, going to preferences and checking "open in sidebar?"
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