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I just discovered ubiquity, a Firefox plugin from Mozilla labs which is really just a sort-of alpha concept preview of a new command-line interface for the web browser that they are working on.

It’s extremely cool

Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.

You should watch the video, the stuff they’re doing already is kind-of exciting. It reminded me a lot of PowerShell, so I started digging around some blogs and trying to figure out where they are going, and what their inspiration is … and now I’m really quite excited about it and you should be too. Won’t it be cool when you can tell Firefox something like:

Hey Firefox? Take this text from this page, translate it to Spanish, encrypt it with my mom’s public key, email it to her … and oh yeah save this chain of commands as a new command so I can use it later.

That’s the vision of jono over at Mozilla Labs, and it sounds pretty good to me Although I couldn’t help but think that if I could access PowerShell from my browser and pipe in the selected text, I could do pretty much all of that with existing commands

Anyway, I thought I’d give you a few links to read about the concepts of expressive, composable, linguistic, and partially graphical interfaces. And then later on, I’ll show you mine.

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