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Things like this really make me miss the old Firefox experiment "Ubiquity". It was truly a marvel for the time it was up, and I often wonder why they did discontinue it.

You could search websites, send emails, look at maps and much more (you could build your own commands) without ever actually opening a webpage. It had 200.000 users when they shut it down.




Wouldn't you just be able to fork it and continue as a hobby project of your own? Who knows, maybe you find other enthusiasts and it becomes a real project again. Mozilla licenses are (I believe and could be wrong), quite lenient about these things.


This is what I found by looking at its Wikipedia article:

https://bitbucket.org/satyr/ubiquity/downloads




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