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.
