Fantastic new experimental extension for firefox

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raul

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Hi all, I know there is a Firefox experimental extension stick but this is revolutionary and deserves its own thread. The new extension 'Ubiquity' is absolutely fabulous and adds tons on new fucntionality to Firefox and really distances it from other browsers. This is an absolute must have. There are already thousands of commands out for this extension and it's just a couple of days old.

What it does, it opens a translucent floating window for you to type commands, for instance I can type 'ticker ibm' and it gives IBM's latest stock price, or type 'bling 400 USD in INR' and it gives you the result.

Similarly I can type 'flickr' or 'youtube Beyonce' and it will give you a small preview of the search results within the floating window itself and if you press enter it will take takes you to your query results page on those sites. Its like a mash which consumes services at your fingertips.

There are largish number of inbuilt commands and thousands of user created commands linked form the Mozilla site. Here are some of the commands I have discovered that are good so far and links.

Ubiquity: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity

Decent commands so far:

Spreeder Command for Ubiquity

CyberPrime's Ubiquity Commands - Demonoid Search

Ubiquity Command: Google News Search

Ubiquitous CrunchBase - Semantic CrunchBase

JasonSmith.ca | Ubiquity By Mozilla Labs

Ubiquity metacritic command

garyhodgson.com/ubiquity/torrent

0xDECAFBAD - UbiquityCommands

http://mysite.verizon.net/zaduma/tpb.html

http://darryl.cain.com.au/ubiquity/exchange/

al3x's Ubiquity Commands

http://www.issinoho.free2hoxt.com/torrentz.html
 
haven't tried this yet but i wonder if you know this... typing something like "wiki george bush" or "youtube iron maiden the trooper" in the address bar of firefox takes you to the page 90% of the time.
 
This is much much more than that, this is consuming web services and accessing api's if necessary, there is tons of flexibility and its just a couple of days old, the potential to mix and match and create entirely new services from multiple web services is limitless. So give it a try, I can assure you its much more than querying on the firefox search or address bar.
 
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