However, all the things you guys are doing with it, I do with the Firefox location and search bars and some bookmarks with keywords.
What do you do that I don't do?
That isn't my claim. That is your claim. You said that everything we were saying we use Ubiquity for, you do with Firefox location and search bars and some bookmarks with keywords. So far you have demonstrated that you can search wikipedia with just a few keystrokes. Great! Now tell me how you do the other things I and everyone else has mentioned, only using Firefox location and search bars and some bookmarks with keywords.
You are the one who made the claim that you can match the functionality of Ubiquity using Firefox location and search bars and some bookmarks with keywords. Back it up, or drop it.
I don't mind if you can't, and probably many of the things I COULD do with Ubiquity, I don't, and use new tabs for instead. However, that isn't what you have issues with at the moment.
Also, could you change the attribution of the quote in you post to "Apreche" not "luke burrage", please. That kind of thing isn't cool.
But really? You can do everything that I do with Firefox location and search bars with bookmarked keywords? Utter, utter, bullshit.
Actually, you can. And more, seeing as keyworded bookmarks aren't constrained to only search boxes, as search bars are. The only thing that Ubiquity has over keywords is that it opens in a small window within the current tab, whereas bookmarks just open new tabs, though that can be changed by a javascript.
Great! Where can I do the continually updating google maps searching that Ubiquity does? I'd like that functionality on computers without Ubiquity installed.
Great! Where can I do the continually updating google maps searching that Ubiquity does? I'd like that functionality on computers without Ubiquity installed.
You can't do that with the location bar and search bars. Ubiquity is not a search bar. Ubiquity is just a wrapper for scripts, you can just make bookmarks out of those scripts and you've got the same thing. You're making a stupidly huge deal about this Luke. You're talking to Scott for Christ's sake!
You can't do that with the location bar and search bars. Ubiquity is not a search bar. Ubiquity is just a wrapper for scripts, you can just make bookmarks out of those scripts and you've got the same thing. You're making a stupidly huge deal about this Luke. You're talking to Scott for Christ's sake!
So where can I get the same script so I can tie tie it to a bookmark? I'd really like this functionality to run in a new tab. Both you and Scott say you can do it, so you must have tried it already. A hint on how or where would be nice.
So where can I get the same script so I can tie tie it to a bookmark? I'd really like this functionality to run in a new tab. Both you and Scott say you can do it, so you must have tried it already. A hint on how or where would be nice.
Nope, haven't tried it, I don't need such functionality, but one doesn't have to try it to know. You should've realized this already, since to get commands into your Ubiquity, you have to add feeds. Feeds which just contain the source code for commands. You'd just have to make those scripts stand-alone. Or of course you could just write them from scratch.
SuperGenPass is such a script. You bookmark it, add a keyword, and you can open the bookmark whenever you need to generate a password for a website. You just have to find, or write, bookmarklets that do what you want, add them to your bookmarks, and possibly sync them with some bookmark synchronizer so that you have them available everywhere you have internet (and a browser that can deal with them).
Also, could you change the attribution of the quote in you post to "Apreche" not "luke burrage", please. That kind of thing isn't cool.
Probably wasn't intentional - there's a small bug in the forum software that occasionally causes incorrect attributions when you use the quote link.
It's actually not completely a bug. It's mostly user error.
You notice how there is a quote button on each and every post? If you click that button, it will quote the entire post it is associated with and cite the author. If you select some text in a post, and click the quote button for that post, it will quote only the text you have selected, and cite the author. If you select some text in one post, but click the quote button on another post, it will quote the selected text, but cite the author of the post you clicked the button for.
It's actually not completely a bug. It's mostly user error.
You notice how there is a quote button on each and every post? If you click that button, it will quote the entire post it is associated with and cite the author. If you select some text in a post, and click the quote button for that post, it will quote only the text you have selected, and cite the author. If you select some text in one post, but click the quote button on another post, it will quote the selected text, but cite the author of the post you clicked the button for.
Well, that clears that up. I've been wondering about that.
And how do you go about quoting someone in another page of the same thread?
By typing:<blockquote rel="[author]">[Ctrl+V]</p></div></blockquote>How else? You know, it would be nifty if under that quote button was some awesome AJAX that stores the post to quote and puts it in the text area when it becomes available. Yes Jason, it would also be nifty if the 'block user' button did what it said.
I use a combination of Ubiquity and the Firefox superbar and bookmarks, myself, though mostly due to personal preference. The superbar/bookmarks work just fine for sites I visit frequently (especially when browsing through LiveJournal roleplaying posts and comms).
For searches, however, I like Ubiquity's user interface better than using the Firefox search box. This will sound a bit obsessive-compulsive (and it probably is), but I don't like leaving the text of my previous search hanging around up in the search bar, so I always feel the need to go up and delete that text after I've made a search there; with Ubiquity, the search term disappears with the search window after I'm done with it, taking away my niggling little psychological need to "clean up", as it were. Also, as Luke described, I find it very handy to see the summaries of search results pop up in the Ubiquity window without having to open up new tabs (especially useful for Wiki and YouTube results). That personally more preferable searching experience combined with the general layout of the window and the other commands that I've come to use frequently and semi-frequently will warrant my continued usage for now.
This will sound a bit obsessive-compulsive (and it probably is), but I don't like leaving the text of my previous search hanging around up in the search bar, so I always feel the need to go up and delete that text after I've made a search there;
Same here, I always right-clicked->Delete search history, was the fastest method to me. Though I have since moved to Vimperator where I only have the locationbar. So I just went with keyworded bookmarks for my searches, Google being default needs no bookmark, wikipedia, and then some other stuff.
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You are the one who made the claim that you can match the functionality of Ubiquity using Firefox location and search bars and some bookmarks with keywords. Back it up, or drop it.
I don't mind if you can't, and probably many of the things I COULD do with Ubiquity, I don't, and use new tabs for instead. However, that isn't what you have issues with at the moment.
Also, could you change the attribution of the quote in you post to "Apreche" not "luke burrage", please. That kind of thing isn't cool.
SuperGenPass is such a script. You bookmark it, add a keyword, and you can open the bookmark whenever you need to generate a password for a website. You just have to find, or write, bookmarklets that do what you want, add them to your bookmarks, and possibly sync them with some bookmark synchronizer so that you have them available everywhere you have internet (and a browser that can deal with them).
You notice how there is a quote button on each and every post?
If you click that button, it will quote the entire post it is associated with and cite the author.
If you select some text in a post, and click the quote button for that post, it will quote only the text you have selected, and cite the author.
If you select some text in one post, but click the quote button on another post, it will quote the selected text, but cite the author of the post you clicked the button for.
<blockquote rel="[author]">[Ctrl+V]</p></div></blockquote>How else? You know, it would be nifty if under that quote button was some awesome AJAX that stores the post to quote and puts it in the text area when it becomes available. Yes Jason, it would also be nifty if the 'block user' button did what it said.For searches, however, I like Ubiquity's user interface better than using the Firefox search box. This will sound a bit obsessive-compulsive (and it probably is), but I don't like leaving the text of my previous search hanging around up in the search bar, so I always feel the need to go up and delete that text after I've made a search there; with Ubiquity, the search term disappears with the search window after I'm done with it, taking away my niggling little psychological need to "clean up", as it were. Also, as Luke described, I find it very handy to see the summaries of search results pop up in the Ubiquity window without having to open up new tabs (especially useful for Wiki and YouTube results). That personally more preferable searching experience combined with the general layout of the window and the other commands that I've come to use frequently and semi-frequently will warrant my continued usage for now.