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Firefox 3.2 Plans Include Natural Language, Themes

Posted by timothy on from the subject-to-change dept.

Shrike82 writes "Mozilla have described plans for the next version of their popular web browser, Firefox. Mozilla's "Ubiquity project" is set to become a standard feature, allowing "users to type natural language phrases into the browser to perform certain tasks, such as typing 'map 10 Downing Street' to instantly see a Google map of that address, or 'share-on-delicious' to bookmark the site you're currently visiting on the social news site." Also of interest is so-called "lightweight theming" allowing users to customise the browsers design more easily. The launch date is still somewhat unclear, and Mozilla are apparently unsure if version 3.2 will be released at all, apparently considering going straight to Firefox 4."

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  1. Re:More bloat... by chrisgeleven · · Score: 4, Informative

    Weird you should say that. Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 is the fastest Firefox browser yet. The Places feature saves me tons of time by not having to manually go through hundreds of bookmarks. I have far fewer memory leaks then past versions. I can customize Firefox to be as simple or as complex as I wish.

    While Mozilla maybe adding features, it sure isn't looking like bloat to me.

    IE7 is a steaming pile of crap, but it is better then IE6's steaming pile of crap and vomit.

  2. Re:NOOOOOOOOOO! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    RTFA - Ubiquity is an extension ! But it needs a few changes under the hood, that's all. The main difference is that it will accept commands typed in the location bar, and you don't have to type ctrl-space first (which is what the extension was all about). The actual commands will have to be downloaded/installed from the net.

    Besides, it's nothing really special, you can call it a "command line interface for the browser". It has nothing to do with natural language.