Mozilla Labs released a new extension for Firefox called Ubiquity. Ubiquity is part graphical command line interface, part menu extension. Since it is an Firefox add-in it becomes a awesome part of the browser environment. The interface is mostly based on “verbs” that are generally related to a specific web application. Such as map, is part of google maps, and weather goes to weather underground.
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Ubiquity Commands are very simple, if I want to find “Des Moines, IA” in google maps. I access the command line interface by clicking ctrl-space (from windows). Once the interface comes up and type: “map Des Moines, IA”.
Ubiquity could be a really useful tool, it is still in the new toy phase for me. I am enjoying just playing with it. I see many possibilities for customizing it with new verbs to create really useful and efficient workflows. Yet another reason to love Firefox.
