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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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Subscribe to comments216Jun 18th 2009 10:12AM
whoaaa what theme is that?
PaulJun 18th 2009 10:21AM
Yes, what theme is that? Is pretty cool.
Lee MathewsJun 18th 2009 11:19AM
I'm using Two Dimensions right now...I started using it on Crunchbang last week and decided to use it on Windows too.
Danny BoyJun 18th 2009 10:54AM
Thanks for the tip, but I also still prefer Opera's dead simple method.
Lee MathewsJun 18th 2009 11:15AM
The only downside is that non-Opera users can't use it ;)
milrtime83Jun 18th 2009 12:04PM
Yes, but people that use Opera seem to have to take any sort of opportunity to let other people know that they do.
Danny BoyJun 18th 2009 6:40PM
@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 MathewsJun 18th 2009 6:41PM
Let's find some common ground...
Both Firefox and Opera have three vowels in their name. w00t!
Danny BoyJun 19th 2009 6:35AM
Yes, common ground is better. Both are non-MS products. :)
Jaren LJun 19th 2009 2:38AM
Uh, is this particularly different from just bookmarking a site, going to preferences and checking "open in sidebar?"