diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index dc07f98f..3983faa7 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 ------------------
 
 * Ability to create additional viewers. [#94]
+* Updates to use jdaviz 3.9. [#68]
 
 0.2.0 (02-26-2024)
 ------------------
diff --git a/docs/plugins.rst b/docs/plugins.rst
index 60f5f24c..aae63e16 100644
--- a/docs/plugins.rst
+++ b/docs/plugins.rst
@@ -318,10 +318,10 @@ This plugin supports binning a light curve in time or phase-space.
   * :meth:`lightkurve.LightCurve.bin`
 
 
-.. _export-plot:
+.. _export:
 
-Export Plot
-===========
+Export
+======
 
 This plugin allows exporting the plot in a given viewer to various image formats.
 
@@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ This plugin allows exporting the plot in a given viewer to various image formats
 .. admonition:: User API Example
     :class: dropdown
 
-    See the :class:`~lcviz.plugins.export_plot.export_plot.ExportViewer` user API documentation for more details.
+    See the :class:`~lcviz.plugins.export.export.Export` user API documentation for more details.
 
     .. code-block:: python
 
@@ -340,11 +340,11 @@ This plugin allows exporting the plot in a given viewer to various image formats
       lcviz.load_data(lc)
       lcviz.show()
 
-      export = lcviz.plugins['Export Plot']
-      export.save_figure('test.png')
+      export = lcviz.plugins['Export']
+      export.export('test.png')
 
 
 .. seealso::
 
     :ref:`Jdaviz Export Plot <jdaviz:imviz-export-plot>`
-        Jdaviz documentation on the Export Plot plugin.
+        Jdaviz documentation on the Export plugin.
diff --git a/docs/reference/api_plugins.rst b/docs/reference/api_plugins.rst
index a366d19a..56149ce7 100644
--- a/docs/reference/api_plugins.rst
+++ b/docs/reference/api_plugins.rst
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Plugins API
 .. automodapi:: lcviz.plugins.ephemeris.ephemeris
   :no-inheritance-diagram:
 
-.. automodapi:: lcviz.plugins.export_plot.export_plot
+.. automodapi:: lcviz.plugins.export.export
   :no-inheritance-diagram:
 
 .. automodapi:: lcviz.plugins.flatten.flatten
diff --git a/lcviz/helper.py b/lcviz/helper.py
index 295d4477..ca34d032 100644
--- a/lcviz/helper.py
+++ b/lcviz/helper.py
@@ -66,11 +66,11 @@ class LCviz(ConfigHelper):
                                  'tab_headers': True},
                      'dense_toolbar': False,
                      'context': {'notebook': {'max_height': '600px'}}},
-        'toolbar': ['g-data-tools', 'g-subset-tools', 'lcviz-viewer-creator', 'lcviz-coords-info'],
+        'toolbar': ['g-data-tools', 'g-subset-tools', 'g-viewer-creator', 'lcviz-coords-info'],
         'tray': ['lcviz-metadata-viewer', 'flux-column',
                  'lcviz-plot-options', 'lcviz-subset-plugin',
                  'lcviz-markers', 'flatten', 'frequency-analysis', 'ephemeris',
-                 'binning', 'lcviz-export-plot'],
+                 'binning', 'lcviz-export'],
         'viewer_area': [{'container': 'col',
                          'children': [{'container': 'row',
                                        'viewers': [{'name': 'flux-vs-time',
@@ -92,11 +92,7 @@ def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
         )
 
         # inject custom css from lcviz_style.vue (on top of jdaviz styles)
-        if hasattr(self.app, '_add_style'):
-            # will be guaranteed after jdaviz 3.9
-            self.app._add_style((__file__, 'lcviz_style.vue'))
-        else:
-            self.app.set_style_template_file((__file__, 'lcviz_style.vue'))
+        self.app._add_style((__file__, 'lcviz_style.vue'))
 
         # set the link to read the docs
         self.app.docs_link = "https://lcviz.readthedocs.io"
diff --git a/lcviz/lcviz_style.vue b/lcviz/lcviz_style.vue
index ecf6ee17..22ee9bb4 100644
--- a/lcviz/lcviz_style.vue
+++ b/lcviz/lcviz_style.vue
@@ -1,7 +1,3 @@
 <style>
-.lm_tab[title="flux-vs-time"] > .lm_close_tab {
-  /* hide the close button on the tab for the default time-viewer */
-  display: none;
-}
 
 </style>
diff --git a/lcviz/plugins/__init__.py b/lcviz/plugins/__init__.py
index 42ba1f17..9fbeef06 100644
--- a/lcviz/plugins/__init__.py
+++ b/lcviz/plugins/__init__.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 from .binning.binning import *  # noqa
 from .ephemeris.ephemeris import *  # noqa
-from .export_plot.export_plot import *  # noqa
+from .export.export import *  # noqa
 from .flatten.flatten import *  # noqa
 from .flux_column.flux_column import *  # noqa
 from .frequency_analysis.frequency_analysis import *  # noqa
diff --git a/lcviz/plugins/binning/binning.py b/lcviz/plugins/binning/binning.py
index f2440404..75941833 100644
--- a/lcviz/plugins/binning/binning.py
+++ b/lcviz/plugins/binning/binning.py
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
-import numpy as np
-from time import time
 from astropy.time import Time
-from traitlets import Bool, Float, observe
+from traitlets import Bool, observe
 from glue.config import data_translator
 
 from jdaviz.core.custom_traitlets import IntHandleEmpty
@@ -10,7 +8,7 @@
 from jdaviz.core.template_mixin import (PluginTemplateMixin,
                                         DatasetSelectMixin, AddResultsMixin,
                                         skip_if_no_updates_since_last_active,
-                                        with_spinner)
+                                        with_spinner, with_temp_disable)
 from jdaviz.core.user_api import PluginUserApi
 
 from lcviz.components import FluxColumnSelectMixin
@@ -54,9 +52,6 @@ class Binning(PluginTemplateMixin, FluxColumnSelectMixin, DatasetSelectMixin,
     n_bins = IntHandleEmpty(100).tag(sync=True)
     bin_enabled = Bool(True).tag(sync=True)
 
-    last_live_time = Float(0).tag(sync=True)
-    previews_temp_disable = Bool(False).tag(sync=True)
-
     def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
         super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
 
@@ -164,8 +159,9 @@ def _toggle_marks(self, event={}):
 
     @observe('flux_column_selected', 'dataset_selected',
              'ephemeris_selected',
-             'n_bins', 'previews_temp_disable')
+             'n_bins', 'previews_temp_disabled')
     @skip_if_no_updates_since_last_active()
+    @with_temp_disable(timeout=0.3)
     def _live_update(self, event={}):
         self.bin_enabled = self.n_bins != '' and self.n_bins > 0
 
@@ -173,11 +169,6 @@ def _live_update(self, event={}):
             self._clear_marks()
             return
 
-        if self.previews_temp_disable:
-            return
-
-        start = time()
-
         if event.get('name', '') not in ('is_active', 'show_live_preview'):
             # mark visibility hasn't been handled yet
             self._toggle_marks()
@@ -214,10 +205,6 @@ def _live_update(self, event={}):
                 mark.times = []
                 mark.update_xy(times, lc.flux.value)
 
-        self.last_live_time = np.round(time() - start, 2)
-        if self.last_live_time > 0.3:
-            self.previews_temp_disable = True
-
     def _on_ephemeris_update(self, msg):
         if not self.show_live_preview or not self.is_active:
             return
diff --git a/lcviz/plugins/binning/binning.vue b/lcviz/plugins/binning/binning.vue
index c280da46..6bad2b59 100644
--- a/lcviz/plugins/binning/binning.vue
+++ b/lcviz/plugins/binning/binning.vue
@@ -57,23 +57,11 @@
       </v-text-field>
     </v-row>
 
-    <v-alert v-if="previews_temp_disable && show_live_preview" type='warning' style="margin-left: -12px; margin-right: -12px">
-      Live-updating is temporarily disabled (last update took {{last_live_time}}s)
-      <v-row justify='center'>
-        <j-tooltip tooltipcontent='hide live preview (can be re-enabled from the settings section in the plugin).' span_style="width: 100%">
-          <v-btn style='width: 100%' @click="show_live_preview = false">
-            disable previews
-          </v-btn>
-        </j-tooltip>
-      </v-row>
-      <v-row justify='center'>
-        <j-tooltip tooltipcontent='manually update live-previews based on current plugin inputs.' span_style="width: 100%">
-          <v-btn style='width: 100%' @click="previews_temp_disable = false">
-            update preview
-          </v-btn>
-        </j-tooltip>
-      </v-row>
-    </v-alert>
+    <plugin-previews-temp-disabled
+      :previews_temp_disabled.sync="previews_temp_disabled"
+      :previews_last_time="previews_last_time"
+      :show_live_preview.sync="show_live_preview"
+    />
 
     <plugin-add-results
       :label.sync="results_label"
diff --git a/lcviz/plugins/ephemeris/ephemeris.py b/lcviz/plugins/ephemeris/ephemeris.py
index 564277c5..2f263ac0 100644
--- a/lcviz/plugins/ephemeris/ephemeris.py
+++ b/lcviz/plugins/ephemeris/ephemeris.py
@@ -294,7 +294,8 @@ def create_phase_viewer(self, ephem_component=None):
         phase_viewer_id = self._generate_phase_viewer_id(ephem_component)
         # TODO: stack horizontally by default?
         self.app._on_new_viewer(NewViewerMessage(PhaseScatterView, data=None, sender=self.app),
-                                vid=phase_viewer_id, name=phase_viewer_id)
+                                vid=phase_viewer_id, name=phase_viewer_id,
+                                open_data_menu_if_empty=False)
 
         # access new viewer, set bookkeeping for ephemeris component
         pv = self.app.get_viewer(phase_viewer_id)
diff --git a/lcviz/plugins/export/__init__.py b/lcviz/plugins/export/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..aa5f6174
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lcviz/plugins/export/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+from .export import *  # noqa
diff --git a/lcviz/plugins/export_plot/export_plot.py b/lcviz/plugins/export/export.py
similarity index 61%
rename from lcviz/plugins/export_plot/export_plot.py
rename to lcviz/plugins/export/export.py
index a10fba2e..e25340e5 100644
--- a/lcviz/plugins/export_plot/export_plot.py
+++ b/lcviz/plugins/export/export.py
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
-from jdaviz.configs.default.plugins import ExportViewer
+from jdaviz.configs.default.plugins import Export
 from jdaviz.core.registries import tray_registry
 
-__all__ = ['ExportViewer']
+__all__ = ['Export']
 
 
-@tray_registry('lcviz-export-plot', label="Export Plot")
-class ExportViewer(ExportViewer):
+@tray_registry('lcviz-export', label="Export")
+class Export(Export):
     """
-    See the :ref:`Export Plot Plugin Documentation <export-plot>` for more details.
+    See the :ref:`Export Plot Plugin Documentation <export>` for more details.
 
     Only the following attributes and methods are available through the
     :ref:`public plugin API <plugin-apis>`:
@@ -15,10 +15,11 @@ class ExportViewer(ExportViewer):
     * :meth:`~jdaviz.core.template_mixin.PluginTemplateMixin.show`
     * :meth:`~jdaviz.core.template_mixin.PluginTemplateMixin.open_in_tray`
     * :meth:`~jdaviz.core.template_mixin.PluginTemplateMixin.close_in_tray`
-    * ``viewer`` (:class:`~jdaviz.core.template_mixin.ViewerSelect`):
-      Viewer to select for exporting the figure image.
-    * :meth:`save_figure`
+    * ``viewer`` (:class:`~jdaviz.core.template_mixin.ViewerSelect`)
+    * ``viewer_format`` (:class:`~jdaviz.core.template_mixin.SelectPluginComponent`)
+    * ``filename``
+    * :meth:`export`
     """
     def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
         super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
-        self.docs_link = f"https://lcviz.readthedocs.io/en/{self.vdocs}/plugins.html#export-plot"
+        self.docs_link = f"https://lcviz.readthedocs.io/en/{self.vdocs}/plugins.html#export"
diff --git a/lcviz/plugins/export_plot/__init__.py b/lcviz/plugins/export_plot/__init__.py
deleted file mode 100644
index dbcfe9b4..00000000
--- a/lcviz/plugins/export_plot/__init__.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-from .export_plot import *  # noqa
diff --git a/lcviz/plugins/flatten/flatten.py b/lcviz/plugins/flatten/flatten.py
index 172ff904..35b2323f 100644
--- a/lcviz/plugins/flatten/flatten.py
+++ b/lcviz/plugins/flatten/flatten.py
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 import numpy as np
-from time import time
 
-from traitlets import Bool, Float, Unicode, observe
+from traitlets import Bool, Unicode, observe
 
 from jdaviz.core.custom_traitlets import FloatHandleEmpty, IntHandleEmpty
 from jdaviz.core.events import ViewerAddedMessage
@@ -10,7 +9,7 @@
                                         DatasetSelectMixin,
                                         AutoTextField,
                                         skip_if_no_updates_since_last_active,
-                                        with_spinner)
+                                        with_spinner, with_temp_disable)
 from jdaviz.core.user_api import PluginUserApi
 
 from lcviz.components import FluxColumnSelectMixin
@@ -70,9 +69,6 @@ class Flatten(PluginTemplateMixin, FluxColumnSelectMixin, DatasetSelectMixin):
     flux_label_invalid_msg = Unicode('').tag(sync=True)
     flux_label_overwrite = Bool(False).tag(sync=True)
 
-    last_live_time = Float(0).tag(sync=True)
-    previews_temp_disable = Bool(False).tag(sync=True)
-
     def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
         super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
 
@@ -217,16 +213,14 @@ def _toggle_marks(self, event={}):
 
     @observe('dataset_selected', 'flux_column_selected',
              'window_length', 'polyorder', 'break_tolerance',
-             'niters', 'sigma', 'previews_temp_disable')
+             'niters', 'sigma', 'previews_temp_disabled')
     @skip_if_no_updates_since_last_active()
+    @with_temp_disable(0.3)
     def _live_update(self, event={}):
-        if self.previews_temp_disable:
-            return
         if self.dataset_selected == '' or self.flux_column_selected == '':
             self._clear_marks()
             return
 
-        start = time()
         try:
             output_lc, trend_lc = self.flatten(add_data=False)
         except Exception as e:
@@ -253,10 +247,6 @@ def _live_update(self, event={}):
         for mark in flattened_marks.values():
             mark.update_ty(times.value, output_flux)
 
-        self.last_live_time = np.round(time() - start, 2)
-        if self.last_live_time > 0.3:
-            self.previews_temp_disable = True
-
     def vue_apply(self, *args, **kwargs):
         try:
             self.flatten(add_data=True)
diff --git a/lcviz/plugins/flatten/flatten.vue b/lcviz/plugins/flatten/flatten.vue
index 191df121..be51f402 100644
--- a/lcviz/plugins/flatten/flatten.vue
+++ b/lcviz/plugins/flatten/flatten.vue
@@ -138,23 +138,12 @@
       hint="Label for flux column."
     ></plugin-auto-label>
 
-    <v-alert v-if="previews_temp_disable && (show_live_preview || show_trend_preview)" type='warning' style="margin-left: -12px; margin-right: -12px">
-      Live-updating is temporarily disabled (last update took {{last_live_time}}s)
-      <v-row justify='center'>
-        <j-tooltip tooltipcontent='hide live trend and flattened previews (can be re-enabled from the settings section in the plugin).' span_style="width: 100%">
-          <v-btn style='width: 100%' @click="() => {show_live_preview = false; show_trend_preview = false}">
-            disable previews
-          </v-btn>
-        </j-tooltip>
-      </v-row>
-      <v-row justify='center'>
-        <j-tooltip tooltipcontent='manually update live-previews based on current plugin inputs.' span_style="width: 100%">
-          <v-btn style='width: 100%' @click="previews_temp_disable = false">
-            update preview
-          </v-btn>
-        </j-tooltip>
-      </v-row>
-    </v-alert>
+    <plugin-previews-temp-disabled
+      :previews_temp_disabled.sync="previews_temp_disabled"
+      :previews_last_time="previews_last_time"
+      :show_live_preview="show_live_preview || show_trend_preview"
+      @disable_previews="() => {show_live_preview=false; show_trend_preview=false}"
+    />
 
     <v-row justify="end">
       <j-tooltip tooltipcontent="Flatten and select the new column as the adopted flux column">
diff --git a/lcviz/plugins/viewer_creator/viewer_creator.py b/lcviz/plugins/viewer_creator/viewer_creator.py
index d33a533e..69b29298 100644
--- a/lcviz/plugins/viewer_creator/viewer_creator.py
+++ b/lcviz/plugins/viewer_creator/viewer_creator.py
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@
 __all__ = ['ViewerCreator']
 
 
-@tool_registry('lcviz-viewer-creator')
+# overwrite requires upstream changes, we can do without if we just lose the tooltip
+@tool_registry('g-viewer-creator', overwrite=True)
 class ViewerCreator(ViewerCreator):
     def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
         super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
diff --git a/lcviz/state.py b/lcviz/state.py
index ddf393e2..fbab96c8 100644
--- a/lcviz/state.py
+++ b/lcviz/state.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-from echo import delay_callback
 import numpy as np
 
 from glue.viewers.scatter.state import ScatterViewerState
@@ -24,9 +23,10 @@ def _reset_att_limits(self, ax):
         if not np.all(np.isfinite([ax_min, ax_max])):  # pragma: no cover
             return
 
-        with delay_callback(self, f'{ax}_min', f'{ax}_max'):
-            setattr(self, f'{ax}_min', ax_min)
-            setattr(self, f'{ax}_max', ax_max)
+        lim_helper = getattr(self, f'{ax}_lim_helper')
+        lim_helper.lower = ax_min
+        lim_helper.upper = ax_max
+        lim_helper.update_values()
 
     def _reset_x_limits(self, *event):
         self._reset_att_limits('x')
@@ -50,11 +50,15 @@ def reset_limits(self, *event):
             y_min = min(y_min, np.nanmin(y_data))
             y_max = max(y_max, np.nanmax(y_data))
 
-        with delay_callback(self, 'x_min', 'x_max', 'y_min', 'y_max'):
-            self.x_min = x_min
-            self.x_max = x_max
-            self.y_min = y_min
-            self.y_max = y_max
-            # We need to adjust the limits in here to avoid triggering all
-            # the update events then changing the limits again.
-            self._adjust_limits_aspect()
+        x_lim_helper = getattr(self, 'x_lim_helper')
+        x_lim_helper.lower = x_min
+        x_lim_helper.upper = x_max
+
+        y_lim_helper = getattr(self, 'y_lim_helper')
+        y_lim_helper.lower = y_min
+        y_lim_helper.upper = y_max
+
+        x_lim_helper.update_values()
+        y_lim_helper.update_values()
+
+        self._adjust_limits_aspect()
diff --git a/lcviz/tests/test_plugin_ephemeris.py b/lcviz/tests/test_plugin_ephemeris.py
index dea97b68..ac01e755 100644
--- a/lcviz/tests/test_plugin_ephemeris.py
+++ b/lcviz/tests/test_plugin_ephemeris.py
@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
 import pytest
-from packaging.version import Version
-
-import jdaviz
-JDAVIZ_LT_3_9_0 = Version(jdaviz.__version__) < Version('3.9.0')
 
 
 def test_docs_snippets(helper, light_curve_like_kepler_quarter):
@@ -49,13 +45,12 @@ def test_plugin_ephemeris(helper, light_curve_like_kepler_quarter):
     assert len(ephem.ephemerides) == 2
     assert 'custom component' in ephem.ephemerides
 
-    if not JDAVIZ_LT_3_9_0:
-        with pytest.raises(ValueError):
-            # brackets interfere with cloned viewer label logic
-            ephem.rename_component('custom component', 'custom component[blah]')
-        with pytest.raises(ValueError):
-            # colons interfere with viewer ephemeris logic
-            ephem.rename_component('custom component', 'custom component:blah')
+    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
+        # brackets interfere with cloned viewer label logic
+        ephem.rename_component('custom component', 'custom component[blah]')
+    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
+        # colons interfere with viewer ephemeris logic
+        ephem.rename_component('custom component', 'custom component:blah')
 
     ephem.rename_component('custom component', 'renamed custom component')
     assert len(ephem.ephemerides) == 2
@@ -116,7 +111,7 @@ def test_cloned_phase_viewer(helper, light_curve_like_kepler_quarter):
 def test_create_phase_viewer(helper, light_curve_like_kepler_quarter):
     helper.load_data(light_curve_like_kepler_quarter)
     ephem = helper.plugins['Ephemeris']
-    vc = helper._tray_tools['lcviz-viewer-creator']
+    vc = helper._tray_tools['g-viewer-creator']
 
     assert len(vc.viewer_types) == 2  # time viewer, phase viewer for default
     _ = ephem.create_phase_viewer()
diff --git a/lcviz/tests/test_tray_viewer_creator.py b/lcviz/tests/test_tray_viewer_creator.py
index e2a6b835..b48fc5b2 100644
--- a/lcviz/tests/test_tray_viewer_creator.py
+++ b/lcviz/tests/test_tray_viewer_creator.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 def test_tray_viewer_creator(helper, light_curve_like_kepler_quarter):
     # additional coverage in test_plugin_ephemeris
     helper.load_data(light_curve_like_kepler_quarter)
-    vc = helper._tray_tools['lcviz-viewer-creator']
+    vc = helper._tray_tools['g-viewer-creator']
 
     assert len(helper.viewers) == 1
     assert len(vc.viewer_types) == 2  # time and default phase
diff --git a/lcviz/tools.py b/lcviz/tools.py
index badb5aa2..e2b8e155 100644
--- a/lcviz/tools.py
+++ b/lcviz/tools.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 # point to the lcviz-version of plot options instead of jdaviz's
 SidebarShortcutPlotOptions.plugin_name = 'lcviz-plot-options'
-SidebarShortcutExportPlot.plugin_name = 'lcviz-export-plot'
+SidebarShortcutExportPlot.plugin_name = 'lcviz-export'
 
 
 __all__ = ['ViewerClone']
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 0f9907e6..a974fdce 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "astropy>=5.2",
     # NOTE: if/when we stop pinning a minor version of jdaviz, add jdaviz
     # to devdeps in tox.ini
-    "jdaviz==3.8.*",
+    "jdaviz==3.9.*",
     "lightkurve>=2.4.1",
 ]
 dynamic = [