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- intilli4, on 10/11/2007, -5/+41O that would be SO Awesome.
- chrono13, on 10/11/2007, -2/+27A minor subset of that functionality, though not directly built in, can be achieved through Launchy: http://launchy.net/
Quicksilver for Windows if you will. ~1mb download, Free, Open Source. - 80hd, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15Just wait.....Firefox, safari and opera will be doing this three months
Microsoft needs another 6 months for their R&D department to discover it though. - MeltingIce, on 10/11/2007, -0/+14Those reasons are why I love quicksilver, so having some similar functionality in Firefox would be amazing.
- inspecality, on 10/11/2007, -1/+13I bet they were worried you wouldn't. What with it being free and all.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11I suppose FF isnt bloated and slow enough...gotta stuff more. FF = the New iRack.
- samuelcotterall, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11Oh, that's nice.
But, web browsers are very mouse-centric by nature, so I'm not sure the effect would be quite the same. - xShad0w, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9Mozilla better be looking at this for firefox 3, maybe that would make me upgrade
- Cimlite, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7Yeah, Lanchy is suprisingly good. The article in the Digg mentions "Enso" as well, which is a similar program. It's a bit more stylish but harder to actually use, though with some features coming that Launchy probably will never have... such as being able to translate text or grabbing data from the net and pasting automatically into a document (simply by marking text/numbers in the document and typing map or translate).
The downside of Enso though is that you always have to type more than you do in Lanchy. "Open this", "Open that" and you always have to type exact names of applications. With Lanchy you can type a part of something or even misspell it and chances are it will know what you meant. Oh yeah... and Enso eats RAM like it was candy, something that Lanchy also does but I've never seen it take up 30-40mb like Enso does at a minimum.
Anyway, if your using Windows both apps are well worth checking out. Chances are that you will like one or the other. - Gronkk, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6Question: Is there a Quicksilver clone for Linux?
- robshoy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5It's the first new FF3 features I've actually heard about that interests me, and it doesn't even exist.
- resplence, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4And if I remember correctly, with Enso you have to type while holding down Tab, which not only leaves you with one less finger, but also feels extremely awkward.
I couldn't believe it when he said it was a "joy" to use. - Dested, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Wow, this is a really good app. Thanks.
- marklarznexyne, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3For Gnome there is Deskbar and it's rather nice, it has some nice extensions (written in Python).
- Aspero, on 10/11/2007, -4/+7http://sourceforge.net/projects/katapult
- banty19, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Some of this stuff looks pretty cool but I think it should be an extension or an optional feature. Firefox already consumes much more memory than a web browser should and there's a good chance FF3 will be even more bloated.
- LegendarySock, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Alt-F2
- wiihuck, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2quicksilver can already search the internet and navigate your bookmarks (in firefox. in safari it can also navigate your history). cmd-opt-left/right arrow moves between tabs (although the interface does look pretty). i "tag" my bookmarks when i bookmark them because i only access them through quicksilver anyway, so i give them easily remembered and relevant names. and i don't really know what "acting on microformatted content" means.
seems like these "mockups" are playing "catch up." - BlackPhantom, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Holy Crap! Launch is awesome! Thanks for the heads-up!
- cfuse, on 10/11/2007, -4/+6If this is such a fantastic idea, then why don't they just implement it as a plug in. That way, the rest of us don't get lumbered with it.
Don't get why 'cataract/web 2.0' shiny ***** is confused for usability. - willtwilson, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Did you not spot the bit in the address bar and labelled across the top of the page which mentioned "Mozilla Labs" as the author?
- jtizzle, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I'm surprised nobody suggested gnome-launch-box.
http://developer.imendio.com/projects/gnome-launch-box
There, now it's been suggested. - jivemasta, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I think he is mainly talking about using it for searches, every thing else would just be extra eye candy. For searches, in a web page or through google or other engines, it would be a good feature. Instead of having to click the upper right text box, then typing, you just hit 2 buttons and type.
- Aspero, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3I didn't think quicksilver would be that useful now I can't live without it.. It really has changed the way I work with my Mac. If you have windows try launchy http://launchy.net or if you have linux try katapult http://sourceforge.net/projects/katapult , Trust me after a week of using it you'll be hooked.
- ricercia, on 04/21/2008, -0/+2Katapult in KDE does a similar thing
- SuitCase874, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Mmm, I guess it's a novel way of doing it, but is it really that distinct from the Cmd-Opt-F shortcut used in Safari to jump to the Google search field?
I really think having a search field is necessary to expose the functionality to newbies, and the ideal power user solution to the searching problem is the use of keywords as seen in Opera. So "g search" searches google, or "e search" searches ebay - stuff like that. This Quicksilver solution sits in the middle and wouldn't be as effective for either newbie or power user. - drgmdp, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1it's a really nice study on keyboard based UIs.
but the title is pretty stupid for an article that mentions quicksilver only ONCE. - PARTyZAN, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2KDE has Katapult.
- aaronm67, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Safari, Firefox, Konqueror, and most other browsers support the searches also, and it is a very cool feature.
- aaronm67, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1No it wasn't. Katapult was inspired by Quicksilver.
- stalefries, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Why does it seem like I've seen that exact comment and response before?
- mozzep, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2which is ironic considering the whole reason behind firefox was to make an unbloated browser from the mozilla suite.
- fatas, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2It would be great if Compiz Fusion can be enabled with tabs in Firefox
- angelrendon, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1True but you could say that basically all the tasks one uses Quicksilver for are normally mouse-centric as well.
- judsond, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Different strokes, I try and use my keyboard for everything, but web browsing usually makes this very difficult. I would love this.
- PhireN, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2try Katapult for KDE
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Surely quicksilver could be made to hook into any osx browser
- spudnic, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I prefer to use my keyboard as little as possible when browsing, that way I can slouch back in my chair like the lazy arse I am.
- Azio, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1They should really just add Firefox support to Quicksilver that isn't completely half-assed.
- Firehed, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Likewise. But the big difference here is that there aren't global keyboard shortcuts that can copy text between different apps or a super-fast way to Cmd+Tab into address book, find a name, choose their email address and compose a message to that person, with the attachment that you've selected in a different finder window. Firefox's useful keyboard shortcuts are fairly few and don't need a major interaction with other 'parts' of the app, which is where QS really shines. And those things I can already do with QS.
- NiGHTSChao, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1So do you update your extensions?
- slapthemonkey, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1That would be wonderful.
- ripstuntz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Didn't read the article, dugg purely for this picture:
http://people.mozilla.com/~faaborg/files/20070705-kui/i1kuiWebSearch.png_large.png - stalefries, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Microformats, from what I understand, seem to be some sort of intelligent interpretation of a webpage's content. For example, if the browser sees a street address in a page, it could possibly give you some sort of additional functionality based on that.
- Firehed, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1There's probably no reason that it couldn't be created as an extension that ties in with QS, or a QS plugin that'll activate existing keyboard shortcuts. I can already search quite quickly since I've done the keystrokes so often (Cmd+T, Cmd+L, "go/wiki searchterm", enter) and adding in a QS-esque interface for that would probably be slower, but adding in a graphical Ctrl+Tab interface with the live previews and things of that nature would be very helpful as compared to getting a favicon and six letters of the title ("Digg - ..." isn't too informative).
- isewise, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3I agree. Keyboard shortcuts work just fine for me, I don't need some web 2.0 inspired interface to tell me I'm switching tabs.
- skyshock1, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0That depends wholly on the user now doesn't it? It'd certainly be a handy tool to have for those of us who are more keyboard centric.
- bjerkeweb, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0How's the weather up there on that high-horse of yours? The guy clearly articulated the ideas of mixing keyboard inputs and GUIs and mocked up an idea that could be considered usable for a wide variety of people. Quicksilver happens to be the single most useful utility I've ever installed on my computer. It also has absolutely nothing to do with web 2.0. To call a well-thought-out concept "cataract/web 2.0 *****" only makes you look all the stupider.
- Langeh, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0Buried for the use of the word lolcats.
Gaiafag. - 80hd, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Firefox will be doing this three months
Microsoft needs another 6 months for their R&D department to discover it though. -
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