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Test How Ubiquity Will Become TaskFox, No Installation Required
12:00AM Kevin Purdy | Taskfox, the Mozilla project that aims to bring some of Ubiquity’s action-oriented awesomeness into Firefox without extensions, is moving along, and the team wants everyone to see how it might work without any downloads required. More »
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Make Ubiquity Your Ultimate Firefox Commander
2:00AM Gina Trapani | One of the niftiest Firefox add-ons to come out of Mozilla Labs is Ubiquity, a natural language commander that adds killer functionality on-page in Firefox. Let’s take a closer look. More »
Ubiquity Sees Major Update, New Look, Better Performance
10:00AM Adam Pash | Popular Firefox extension Ubiquity—which adds a natural language command line to Firefox—sees a significant update today. The extension, developed by the folks at Mozilla, now boasts a killer new look, faster performance, improved stability, and more relevant results. If you’re really gaga for Ubiquity, the new version even allows user to create their own skins. If you’re new to Ubiquity and want to get a better idea of what commands it can perform, check out Ubiquity Herd to browse and install new commands. Ubiquity is a free download, works wherever Firefox does. Major Ubiquity Update [Mozilla Labs] More »
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Turn Bookmarklets Into Keyboard Commands With Ubiquity
2:30AM Gina Trapani | The Firefox extension that adds a smart keyboard interface to Firefox—Ubiquity—now supports bookmarklets. Developer Aza Raskin describes, step by step in the video above, how to set them up. In short, you can add any bookmarklet to Ubiquity’s command set, and invoke the Ubiquity prompt to execute them from anywhere using only your keyboard. Of course, you can do something similar (but not as good-looking) using Firefox keyword bookmarks, too. Still, Ubiquity has that lovely Quicksilver/Launchy-like suggest-as-you-type command window going on. Ubiquity Tutorial: Turn Bookmarklets Into Commands [Aza's Thoughts via Mozilla DevNews] More »
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Make Ubiquity More Ubiquitous
2:00AM Adam Pash | Software engineer and Lifehacker reader William Bartholomew loves previously mentioned Firefox extension Ubiquity, but would prefer it were a bit more… well, ubiquitous. One of the biggest limitations I see is that its keyboard shortcut is only available from within Firefox; I really want to be able to invoke it from whatever application I’m currently using. More »
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