Command Lines and the Future of Firefox

Barence writes "Mozilla has revealed how it plans to integrate plain text commands directly into future versions of Firefox. Dubbed Taskfox, the move sees Mozilla's Ubiquity project become part of the browser itself, allowing users to type commands directly into the address bar. You can, for example, type 'map cleveland street london' to bring up a Google Map of that location, or 'amazon-search the great gatsby' to find that book on Amazon, without visiting the website directly. 'The basic idea behind Taskfox is simple: take the time-saving ideas behind Ubiquity, and put them into Firefox,' the Taskfox wiki claims. 'That means allowing users to quickly access information and perform tasks that would normally take several steps to complete.'"

Comments

...Not again

[AnonGCB]

A browser is copying an opera feature. What a shocker. And everyone will be like "ZOMG AWESOME!!!1" and nobody will give opera credit. For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, opera can make custom search shortcuts out of any search bar. From what I read that's basically all it is with google maps and whatnot.

Re:In the beginning

[awshidahak]

Mozilla Firefox is behind the times. Opera has a GUI therefore making Firefox obsolete software that should only be installed on geeks computers and they should keep their dirty trash to themselves.