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Install latest version of Ubiquity for Firefox

Install the latest beta of Ubiquity for Firefox

What is Ubiquity?

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:

1. Trusting Functionality by Atul
2. Mouse-Based Ubiquity
3. Sharing Streamable Functionality by Aza
4. Language-Based Interfaces, part 1: The Problem by Jono
5. Our Presentation at Labs Night by Jono
6. Why Verbs? by Jono
7. Selected Press

Participation

1. Ideas, Complaints, Forum, and "Customer Service"
2. General Google Group/mailing list - Useful for discussion of command development, user interface, feature suggestions, and other high-level discussions.
3. Commands In The Wild Add links to your commands here.
4. Ubiquitously, an Ubiquity developer geared forum
5. #ubiquity irc.mozilla.org - Live internet relay chat discussion.
6. Issue Tracker - Used to report/discuss bugs and submit patches for Ubiquity.
7. Ubiquity HG Repository - The Mercurial source code repository for Ubiquity.
8. Buildbot - Continuous integration that runs Ubiquity unit tests after every commit. If the tests fail, they're reported immediately to the mailing list.
9. Core Google Group/mailing list - Discussion of low-level internals of Ubiquity.
10. Credits

Meeting Notes

1. Meeting notes for 0.1 release
2. November 12 Meeting Notes

Documentation

1. Ubiquity Tutorial
2. Creating Commands Tutorial
3. Skinning Ubiquity Tutorial
4. Contributing to Core Development
5. Localizing Ubiquity to Your Language
6. Noun-types Reference
7. Bundled libraries
8. Using jQuery in Ubiquity
9. JavaScript style guide
10. Source-tip Commands Tutorial
11. Ubiquity 0.1.3 Architecture

The Herd

Note the herd website is currently offline

The Herd keeps track of all Ubiquity scripts. For more information, see the following links:

1. Herd HG Repository
2. Herd Developer FAQ
3. CouchDB - database used for Herd

Proposals

1. Command Suggestions - use this page to suggest new Ubiquity commands you'd like to see.
2. Proposals for New Nouns
3. Proposals for new "Magic Words"
4. Ubiquity Commands Center - an idea for a web-panel that maintains a database of Ubiquity scripts.
5. Ubiquity Trust Network - a proposal for a distributed trust network
6. Ubiquity In Thunderbird - let's make Ubiquity work in Thunderbird!
7. 0.2 Roadmap Proposals - Brainstorming on possible directions to go for Ubiquity 0.2.
8. 0.2 Design: UI and Security Extensibility - Design-related thoughts on how to make Ubiquity extensible in regards to security/command-execution and access by other Firefox UIs.

Release Notes

1. Ubiquity 0.1.1 Release Notes
2. Ubiquity 0.1.2 Release Notes (Raging Stream)