Introducing Ubiquity for Firefox, and experiment in connecting the Web with language. labs.mozilla.com/2008/08/introducing-ubiquity/

Ubiquity's goals are to:

Empower users to control the web browser with language-based instructions. (With search, users type what they want to find. With Ubiquity, they type what they want to do.)

Enable on-demand, user-generated mashups with existing open Web APIs. (In other words, allowing everyone (not just Web developers) to remix the Web so it fits their needs, no matter what page they are on, or what they are doing.)

Use Trust networks and social constructs to balance security with ease of extensibility.

Extend the browser functionality easily.

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  • JD Lasica plus 1 year ago
    Sounds like an important and valuable advancement. Gonna check it out right now.
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  • Michael Whalen 1 year ago
    This is truly amazing. I love it. You're my hero dude, honestly.
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  • Joel Gillman 1 year ago
    This is incredible! It's only version 0.1 and it's already changing the way I surf AND it's blowing my mind.
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  • Nick Pettit 1 year ago
    THIS is what the web should be like. Nice work, Mozilla.
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  • davisr 1 year ago
    Sounds like an important step; keep it going, Mozilla!
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  • erik schoster 1 year ago
    this is absolutely excellent!
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  • Mignon Dousi 1 year ago
    Wicked!
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  • Alex Leonard plus 1 year ago
    Looks pretty incredible. I will definitely be checking it out.
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  • Federico Pistono 1 year ago
    Awesome!
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  • Francois Reeves 1 year ago
    It's about time we start thinking of integration. Reminds me a lot of spotlight on steroïds. Keep on the good work. Would be fun to eventually avoid typing altogether. Say "Map this" rather than type it. Alternatively have basic commands associated to icons. I confess I'm definitely lazy. ;)
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  • till 1 year ago
    So, is this is the [extended] web 2.0 version of Greasemonkey?
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  • Rick Umali 1 year ago
    Glad to see this demo, as I've been reading about Ubiquity, but haven't seen a demo yet. This was perfect! It seems quite useful too, so I'll have to try it.
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  • lukas zinnagl 1 year ago
    this is such a cool enhancement for the web. We built an add-on which enables you to specifically search for people related data by typing "people search" - you might want to try that out on 123people.com

    hope you guys like it
    lukas / 123people team
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  • Ulises Rey 1 year ago
    would it be for Opera?
    When?
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  • George Campbell 1 year ago
    I hope Aza will have a Pownce account so I can easily keep up with new Ubiquity happenings.
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  • Wynne Achatz 1 year ago
    Thanks fos this little tip, could be very useful. have sent it along to some of my firefox user buddies.
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  • Jose 1 year ago
    Awesome improve for firefox, it's a great advance for internet users...
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  • nmw 1 year ago
    will certainly be great once the wisdom of the language is extended throughout the entire web
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  • TheLinx 1 year ago
    Fantastic.
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  • cubus 1 year ago
    This is truly briljant.

    Thanks for making the first steps towards an truly more functional and efficient web environment.
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  • Vormplus plus 1 year ago
    Thanks for posting this video. Seems very useful.
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  • Technology Goddess 1 year ago
    Thank you - this is truly amazing and will make life for the techie so much easier! Just pure brilliant.
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  • Rbeuque74 1 year ago
    it's so excellent. mozilla for ever !
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  • KTdesigner 1 year ago
    One step closer to Aurora. Nice work!
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  • glenn friesen 1 year ago
    We're so excited for the possibilities with this here at qmania.com it's mind-blowing. One step closer to Aurora without having to leave firefox. Awesome.
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  • Jonathan 1 year ago
    Just blogged about this. Basically, it's the future.

    @tim castle: since most people have not been exposed to the idea of the command line, how do you know it's beyond them? I'm old enough to have seen people not understanding how to use a mouse ya know...
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  • Navdeep 1 year ago
    super cool... its like a QUICKSILVER for FIREFOX :)
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  • Jeremiah Zabal 1 year ago
    Did you do the motion type in the intro?
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  • Zane Trance 1 year ago
    This = the uber future of the web. A personal AI to help you with your work: tinyurl.com/yo9tbv lol, using it now!
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  • eric 1 year ago
    looks like my ENSO, i like it!
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  • Bryson 1 year ago
    The link is on the blog post: labs.mozilla.com/2008/08/introducing-ubiquity/

    Look a few paragraphs below the video on that page for the link "Install the prototype".
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  • boofa 1 year ago
    this is awesome
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  • cesar 1 year ago
    extra nice
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  • sang 1 year ago
    excellent good
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  • Aldo Villamil 1 year ago
    fricking great
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  • Jens Hoffmann 1 year ago
    Sounds like good UX :)
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  • Emrah Gunduz plus 1 year ago
    i wrote a few personal commands for word lookup, site search, etc etc... already become a "must" for me :)

    great addon...
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  • Dr_Freemanstein 11 months ago
    This looks awesome...it's real "Web: The Next Generation" material...gonna go give it a whirl...

    By the way...your voice sounds very familiar...are you one of the guys who did the "Hydrogen vs Boost" video???
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  • Zacqary Adam Green plus 10 months ago
    Your voice...it makes me think of Quentin Tarantino working at an Apple store. I don't know why.

    Also oh my god this is awesome.
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  • editor jackie 9 months ago
    Keep making my job easier! go ahead! thanks.
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  • Joost Klaver 9 months ago
    Incredibly useful. Very very nice work. I'll be updating the plugin every time. Thanks mozilla
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  • JIm Mason 9 months ago
    I have tried them all and nothing compares to Firefox!

    RT
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  • doncrowley 9 months ago
    I can't tell you how much I 'loved' ubiquity. Yup past tense. since 0.1.2 I don't dare update. I have a later version on my work machine (a Mac) and my home machine (Win XP) is 0.1.2. But at work it is useless. It even disables my url bar in firefox! I check out every new version... If it would work I'd love it to pieces again.
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  • Guy Dimet 9 months ago
    Looks very cool
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  • David Guyon 9 months ago
    Heard about that months ago and after trying it, I can say that the job made on that FF extension is really awesome. Congrats to the dev team
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  • Michael Mooring 9 months ago
    "You should note that this wasn't possible before"

    lol, nice. Yea I'm on board and plan to get involved. I love the Firefox/Mozilla philosophy: Internet for the the people, by the people. That personality and ant like structure of co-op shows in Mozilla and that should inspire us all.
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  • john carver 8 months ago
    This is basically an embedded version of Launchy (check this app out, keystroke launcher for windows with pretty much al of the functionality of ubiquity, but, at the OS level)
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  • Khem Jones 8 months ago
    Very good! I really like the idea! I think this could be the next step for the online revolution.
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  • Stephan Otto 1 month ago
    i really like ubiquity. btw: how did you make this video? the beginning, with the animated text looks really cool. any advice?
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