Friday, August 7, 2009

Baidu / Douban / VeryCD Firefox Ubiquity Commands

Ubiquity is a Firefox add-on that allows you to invoke command (via ctrl-space) in the browser no matter which web page you are at. It becomes very handy when you are reading a web page and wanna search or lookup some words on the web page. Just highlight the words on page, hit ctrl-space, and enter the "command" (eg: google, yahoo, map, weather, etc), and a preview of search results overlays the current browser window.

Since I am in China I often use Baidu (百度)/ Douban (豆瓣)/ VeryCD to search for online resources and thus I spend a little time and wrote the following Ubiquity commands.

To use them, first install Ubiquity.

Then browse to the following pages and hit "subscribe" when prompted.

Baidu Ubiquity Command - http://gist.github.com/163391
Douban Ubiquity Command - http://gist.github.com/163388
VeryCD Ubiquity Command - http://gist.github.com/163389

Here are some screen shots: