Ubiquity Gets an Update: A Prettier and Faster Command Line for Firefox
Ubiquity, the experimental Firefox addon that gives your browser a context sensitive command-line, just received a nice update from Mozilla. In this new version, Mozilla has mostly worked on making Ubiquity faster, but also added a new look and the ability to use different skins. The plugin now also sorts commands by relevancy, based on how often you use a given command.
Prettier and Faster
The new UI adds a more elegant way of displaying results and the ability to edit the UI, but the main difference between this version and the last update is that the plugin is now indeed noticeably faster.
When Mozilla first launched Ubiquity, we gave it a rave review, and it has quickly become one of our favorite Firefox plugins. Our own Sarah Perez called it a "whole new UI for Firefox."
A Command Line for Firefox
If you are not familiar with Ubiquity, the addon gives you the ability to quickly type commands into Firefox. You can, for example, update your Twitter status by invoking the command line by pressing 'ctrl-space" (or 'option-space' if you are on a Mac) and then type 'twitter [message].' Or you can search Google by simply typing 'g [search term].' Search results are updated live inside the Ubiquity UI. For a complete list of commands, just type 'command-list' after installing the extension.
If you want to try out Ubiquity, also have a look at the list of installable Ubiquity verbs we compiled earlier this year.
Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.
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very good. im suprised that the firefox went this long before going turbo
hello, happy new year... and have a nice day... thanks...
Happy New Year to ReadWriteWeb! More power.
This new version doesn't seem to work on Linux :( (i'm using Ubuntu Intrepid)
@andrei: for me it does. It's incredibly ugly though and covers up almost all of the screen and even though it's 12", thats by far too large!
they said they were going to use a different skin for linux but obviously they ended up using the win-skin without transparancy!
concerning look: I very much prefere the old skin (even on windows) but the ability to use css is a great feature!
and they obviously fixed an issue with wikipedia command always displaying link-to...
@martin: We are working through some issues with display on Linux -- Firefox isn't quiet as platform agnostic as we thought. But, you can always switch to the old skin by using the "skin-list" command.