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by sp332 5035 days ago
I wonder if this shares code with the promising-but-defunct Ubiquity project? https://vimeo.com/1561578 Edit: if you don't feel like watching a video, here's what it's about: http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/ubiquity-in-depth/
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No, it does not. I've been casually following the development of GCLI (formerly known as "Cockpit") for a while now. It started as a debugging component of the Ace editor.
In some respects, it goes farther back than that. IIRC, Bespin had a command line in early 2009 when I started working on it.
I've had so much hope in Ubiquity; let's hope this will get a nicer model for writing extensions and a "package" manager (I'd love something like Sublime2 has).
I don't think so. Only major thing I see is the homepage URL changed to https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity
At least it was updated to work with FF 13+.

  Version 0.6.2
  Released July 19, 2012 1.0 MB
  Works with Firefox 13.0 and later
Firefox already has a package manager, doesn't it? You pick up the "packages" here: http://addons.mozilla.org/
Firefox has a package manager, but Ubiquity didn't. Instead you embedded some meta tags in your webpage pointing out the Ubiquity extensions and following that page you'd get an installation.

There wasn't a central repository for Ubiquity.