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Extensions have proven to be a very valuable mechanism for extending and improving Firefox and other "toolkit" applications. More sophisticated dependency handling, streaming or stubbed install, and cross-application extension management will be combined with support for additional types of extensions such as language packs and search tools. Combined with application-level improvements in overlay-point freezing or other such advancements, these should provide significant benefits to developers of extensions to Gecko 1.9-hosted applications.
The development of rich web applications requires sophisticated debugging and analysis tools, and this extends to applications built on web-like platforms like Gecko. Mozilla has provided tools such as the Venkman JavaScript debugger and the DOM Inspector to assist developers of such applications, and we will continue to make improvements in Gecko to support corresponding improvements in these and similar tools. While we do not anticipate the development of a fully integrated development environment, and do not necessarily feel that such IDEs are of value to the majority of in wide use by web-application developers, we will undertake to support the development of such tools through improved introspection and debugging interfaces. The [[#JavaScript_2"|JavaScript 2]] work includes such debugging improvements, and we will roll the layout-interface elements of the DOM Inspector into Gecko proper to facilitate the development and distribution of such introspection tools. Projects such as Eclipse may also be served by the inclusion of additional language bindings, as we plan to do for [[#Python_for_XUL|Python]].
* Security model improvements
* Extension manager
* Tooling support
