Ubiquity Firefox s Command Line Web Interface Gets More Natural - Webmonkey

Description

Firefox’s unique tool for interacting with web services has gotten easier to use thanks to a new update.

Ubiquity 0.5, a project from Mozilla Labs, is a major improvement to one of the browser’s most useful add-ons. It now uses a more natural language engine that’s closer to human speech, and there’s a helpful tutorial for new users. The update also includes support for more languages and more context-sensitive commands.

It’s officially a preview release for Firefox 3 and 3.5. It has a few bugs, but those eager to test it out can grab it now.

The Ubiquity add-on for Firefox is a “command line interface for the web”. It enables you to interact with web services like Google search, Twitter, Yelp, Delicious and Gmail, as well as perform searches on content sites like Amazon, Wikipedia and Flickr. Ubiquity enables you to perform specific tasks, like e-mail a link to a Gmail contact, post a tweet or check the weather, all with just a few keystrokes.

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