It appears that great minds think alike (or in the case of open-source software and the close-ties between Google and Mozilla, share-alike). Within a week of each other both Mozilla and Google have announced new initiatives to allow for extensions to their browsers to be written using regular HTML / JavaScript and CSS, greatly lowering the bar for developers to join in. Strap on your Mozilla Jetpack and take a peek at extensions for Chrome.
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Who cares? There are lots of places on the web where you can download ad-blocking tools. Google won't make this mistake, as they know people will react badly and will rush to other web sites to get their ad blocker. The community might even be able to boycott Google Chrome if Google were to refuse ad-blocking extensions.
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2007-03-20
Isn't Jetpack just Greasemonkey?
What will happen to Greasemonkey? I think its kind of stupid for Mozilla to reinvent the wheel when something already exists.
I mean Greasemonkey might not be exactly Jetpack but isnt it achieving the kind of thing Jetpack is doing?
Confused....:)
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I had a look at the Google slideshow and quite honestly it is awesome; process isolation for each extension for example, using web technologies that'll allow a person to make one extension and for it to be usable on multiple browsers (hopefully Apple and Opera will come to the party on this one). I don't use many extensions but if it means that one less barrier can be taken down as to allow people to move between different browsers or use multiple browsers depending on the circumstances - Firefox on the desktop and Chrome on the Netbook (for example) then I welcome out new extension API overlords 
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2005-07-12
But back in december on the Opera forums I suggested that they extend their widgets code - which is pretty much just HTML and javascript, to allow this same type of functionality so it could have something resembling extensions.
... and people scoffed at it as either impossible or undesirable.
Now FF and Chrome are going to have it.
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