Comments on: Taskfox Prototype: Ubiquity in Firefox

By: SamF

SamF — Tue, 26 May 2009 02:10:52 +0000

I cannot wait for this. I have been using Ubiquity for months, but taskfox looks much more polished. I love the integration with the awesome bar. I hope in the mouse based iteration there is a CoolPreview like option incorporated to allow for page previews when hovering over a link.

By: Davisr

Davisr — Sun, 17 May 2009 20:21:16 +0000

I can’t wait until this is implemented as a Firefox extension!

By: dprakas

dprakas — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:35:18 +0000

Hi,
I dont know whether this is the right forum to put forward my comments. I tried looking for proper forum in mozilla but did nt get it (need to be more user friendly).
My concern is over a period of time, I have been watching Firefox’s performance from 3.0.1 to 3.0.10 the progress is alarming. Its performance impact on the system is going to bite its own legs. Before 6 months mozilla was my favourite browser but now, the moment i open it it takes a large chunk of memory (almost 35%) compared to Chrome’s (15%). If it continues in the same way then “Spread Mozilla” theme will loose its goal. Please gimme back my spedy and ultra fast Firefox.

By: Florian Fiegel

Florian Fiegel — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:48:19 +0000

Have I to say that I want this ASAP? Go, go, go …

By: Seth Phillips

Seth Phillips — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:47:49 +0000

If you could email me at sethscomptut@yahoo.com when its finished, that would be awesome.

PS: Firefox is way better than IE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Joojaa

Joojaa — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:57:26 +0000

>> One problem I see is that you have to know all the commands.

Well you have to remember a whole lot of things to make browsing happen anyways. Thing is your over emphasizing the fact that people do what they intend. In fact more often than what we like to admit what we end up doing is unintentional.

Natural language helps because then at least you can try to guess. And off course if a user would never be one to use such things no harm done.

By: Acidzburns

Acidzburns — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 06:05:26 +0000

I tried taskfox for a while and translating english into indonesia, so far everything has been translated perfectly. Even the structure of the sentence is correct.
This is very very exciting stuff we got here. And extremely useful for traveller with internet access, judging by the accuracy of the translation.

By: Dominic

Dominic — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 04:30:11 +0000

This is great! It can be for advanced users (in very obvious ways – makes tasks 10x faster, and is has a nice command-line-based feel), and it is also very good for novice users, as they put everyday words (such as “translate this”) into their browser– It will truly revolutionize not only the web, but the way we use computers.

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:09:25 +0000

What is the point of this? I mean it looks cool and all but as I was watching the demo the results of an action are all listed in this tiny little window. How is this better than having the full width of the window available? It just seems like you’re trying to cram more of the Web into an even tinier window.

Maybe this might be useful for utilities like translation or a calculator, but for search results? Forget it.

By: Lyx Nyx

Lyx Nyx — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 03:21:39 +0000

Sorry, I don’t get it.
I’m watching you demonstrate a Firefox addon that throws all my normal search results into a mini drop down window. Whoo hoo. Waited my whole life for that. Right. And then the big reveal… pressing the arrow icon in the mini window to open another ‘mini’ page next to a search result…and an icon arrow back. Whoo hoo! Needed that too. Wait, don’t we all have back/fwd buttons built right into every browser ever made? Oops. Wait Wait… there is still that other ‘cool’ feature right? The one that lets you type in funny abbreviated commands (just like all those programming languages that every novice user loves!). Yes! That’s it! So let me see here… what was that American Airlines flight info trick he did? Um… ‘flight’… no, um… ‘flightinfo’… no, hmm, um… ‘americanairlines’… no, dang… um.. ‘amairflightinfo’… argh!! OK! Forget it. I can’t see ANYTHING useful about this silly addon. What does it give me I don’t already have? Why would I want to remember 16,000 arcane little commands? And why on earth would I prefer to see a truncated and tiny search results page, when I could see everything I was searching for in my full browser window or tab?
Again…I don’t get it.

Other than that, -great demo!