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Back to Labs/Ubiquity. The best way to take this tutorial is by installing Ubiquity and using the interactive tutorial. Use the "help" command. In other languages The tutorial hasn't been translated to other languages yet, feel free to jump in and translate. Download Install latest version of Ubiquity for Firefox (recommended) Install the latest beta of Ubiquity for Firefox Ubiquity is an experimental Firefox extension that gives you a powerful new way to interact with the Web.
You're used to telling Firefox where you want to go by typing Web addresses into the URL bar: With Ubiquity installed, you'll be able to tell Firefox what you want it to do by typing commands into a new Ubiquity input box. Ubiquity commands can do nearly anything. The commands that come with Ubiquity are just the beginning: anyone can create new commands and share them.
Ubiquity is still a work in progress, and we are eager for you to join our virtual team to experiment. If you're on a Mac on Linux. Ubiquitous Interfaces, Ubiquitous Functionality at Toolness. Lately some of us at Mozilla Labs have been experimenting with graphical keyboard user interfaces in Firefox.
Our current work-in-progress is something that we’re calling Ubiquity for the time being, though the name is by no means set in stone. This project is heavily informed by Enso, a software product developed by me and my colleagues at Humanized from 2005-07. Aside from the benefits outlined in Alex Faaborg’s blog post entitled The Graphical Keyboard User Interface, this experiment is intended to solve few other problems, one of which I’ll address in this post. Web applications, much the same as desktop applications, are a bit like isolated cities: it’s difficult for an end-user to arbitrarily share data and functionality between them. This is alleviated to some extent by creations like Firefox Add-ons that add toolbars or sidebars to Firefox’s UI, Bookmarklets, and Greasemonkey, but while all of these solutions are powerful, each comes with its own set of problems.
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Ubiquity was a Mozilla Labs experiment that was in development from 2008 to 2009. Its purpose was to explore whether a radically different type of interface to the Web — a task-centric, natural-language-based command line — could help us get common Web tasks done faster. Development is currently on indefinite hiatus. We will most likely revisit the experiment at some point in the future. In the meantime, the Ubiquity extension for Firefox is still available for download (see below). You can learn more about Ubiquity by reading Atul's blog post entitled Ubiquitous Interfaces, Ubiquitous Functionality, or try it out via the User Tutorial. Other informative blog posts about Ubiquity include: For Firefox 14.0 and up Install Ubiquity 0.6.2 for Firefox 14 and up Install the latest beta of Ubiquity - Maintained by community member Satyr For Older Versions of Firefox Install latest version of Ubiquity for Firefox 3.5 Install the latest beta of Ubiquity for Firefox 3.5.