Can you create a web page? Now you can create a plugin for Firefox too

Most people cannot create an extension to Firefox - this requires knowledge of Javascript, XUL, and a little experience in XML. Now there are about 8,000 developers and 12,000 plugins for Firefox, but Mozilla is always looking for ways to expand it.

So Mozilla has released an experimental program Jetpack , which allows anyone who can create a web page - to create an addition to Firefox. This means that for a simple addition to the popular browser, you only need HTML knowledge. Jetpack also supports CSS and Javascript.

And for those of you who are not good at programming, Jetpack makes one very important change: you don’t have to restart the browser in order to install the add-on through Jetpack.

Jetpack is a very early open source project, it is only 0.1 version and there are still a lot of bugs. But now it allows everyone to use the API to create status bars, work with tabs and much more. It also supports an external API like Twitter, and you can create simple add-ons for Twitter to work with Firefox.

So, if you are a developer, check out the video presentation on how to add on to Firefox.