Ubiquity Extension

Ubiquity, a legacy browser extension for Mozilla Firefox, was a collection of quick and easy natural-language-derived commands that act as mashups of web services, thus allowing users to get information and relate it to current and other webpages. It also allowed Web users to create new commands without requiring much technical background. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubiquity_(Firefox)

Aug26'2008: prototype introduced

2009 post by Jef's son Aza Raskin, then at Mozilla building the Ubiquity browser extension (coming from Enso). You can think about it as a pragmatic stepping stone to the universal canvas of the Cat, with the web as the platform. The goal is to finally switch the way the world thinks about computing, from page/application centric to task centric. If we succeed, then I think we've together accomplished the goal of implementing a large part of Jef's vision.... Our new project attempts to alleviate all of these problems by allowing end-users to apply textual commands, or verbs, to whatever they’re looking at.

• After development of Ubiquity was ceased by Mozilla, a community-maintained version was actively developed until 2016
• (2010-01-20) Xia Retrospective What We Learned From Ubiquity