Comments on: Ubiquity, a browser command line

By: Rex Dart

Rex Dart — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:51:26 +0000

Looks cool; finally, firefox does something Opera hasn’t done ten years ago.

By: Towards a “History This” Command Line « history-ing

Towards a “History This” Command Line « history-ing — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:59:51 +0000

[...] met with largely positive and excited reviews from the tech community, from folks at Lifehacker to Hackaday to Tools for Thought. The extension currently allows for a variety of commands. The common example [...]

By: DaVinci

DaVinci — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:49:04 +0000

I'm a fan of the Hyperwords addon for these kind of tasks. If you're already selecting text with the mouse, the menu is right there and uses the text as a parameter. No need to use the keyboard.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1941
or
http://www.hyperwords.net/

By: your momma

your momma — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:08:27 +0000

How can this be used maliciously, that other tools on the web already aren’t being used maliciously?

By: James

James — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:13:47 +0000

I haven’t downloaded it yet, but it sounds a lot like the keyword functionality they’ve had set up since like FF 1.0. I have a bookmark to WP searches set up so I can just type “w [term]” and search. Same with Google, IMDB, etc. If I really cared to, I suspect I could even manage to open a GMail Compose like that. What else does this buy you?

By: Crystalgeek

Crystalgeek — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:18:54 +0000

How much fun is the “edit” command – come on imagine the office pranks you can have with your fellow techies in the office. Just change the preview of their webpage they are trying to code ehehehehe

By: totokan

totokan — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:18:06 +0000

Why would anyone want to make their browser work like vim? Vim, while useful in a command-line environment, is completely worthless outside of one.

By: mugsy

mugsy — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:08:32 +0000

http://vimperator.mozdev.org/
Vimperator is better. Just so everyone knows.

By: Crystalgeek

Crystalgeek — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:46:53 +0000

Wow, I have just installed this and I’m psychked – this is cool. And lets face it, best Hot Key Ever.

By: Tom Parker

Tom Parker — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:50:55 +0000

I think its useless, i’ve instaled it and I can do some of the things so much faster by typing a url and pasting a link etc

By: Bjonnh

Bjonnh — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:33:36 +0000

Nice but it will make a big overload on web servers like wikipedia

Everytime you type a command like
"wikipedia something", it searcher for resumes of related articles...

Maybe an audit of requests volume would be nice for these site before we put all them down.

By: pip

pip — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:53:03 +0000

#3: Yeah definitely looks verrry hackable.

Awesome thing nonetheless. Take a look at adaptivepath’s Aurora.

By: TheBlunderbuss

TheBlunderbuss — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:42:50 +0000

Commands can be found through about:ubiquity
or using the ‘help’ command in ubiquity.

By: Clayton

Clayton — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:29:41 +0000

I found out about this from another site earlier today, and it’s awesome.

Does anybody have some good websites for commands (or just cool individual commands) that they’d like to share?

By: D4rk

D4rk — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:05:42 +0000

Yes, it could be used for malicious purposes, but still, it is a very powerful tool, and customizable, it will be a strong app in the future.

of course on alpha stage, there could be some nasty bugs in it, but as I said, powerful indeed.