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Is Mozilla Ubiquity Dead?

darthcamaro writes "Remember Mozilla Ubiquity? It was an effort to bring natural language commands to the Firefox browser. Now after almost two years of development and a half million downloads, the project is no longer being actively developed. Project founder Aza Raskin is now working on other projects, including Mozilla Jetpack, so Ubiquity is on the back burner. '"There is huge demand for being able to connect the Web with language — to not have to move from one site to another to complete your daily tasks," Raskin said. "And there is huge demand for anyone to be able to write small snippets of code that lets them command the Web the way they want. Ubiquity gave everyday developers a voice with how the browser and the Web works."'"

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  1. Ubiquitous by pitchpipe · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... the project is no longer being actively developed.

    You might even say that Ubiquity is not Ubiquitous.

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    Look where all this talking got us, baby.
  2. Re:Open Source Projects by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    At least when [insert big company] does get this working they wont be able to patent it stop others doing it.

  3. Re:Open Source Projects by Thinboy00 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wesnoth isn't "shitty" nor "mediocre"

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  4. Re:Open Source Projects by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    True it is not shitty nor mediocre, it is in fact both shitty and mediocre.