Glad you asked!  Introducing Jetpack, Ubiquity's extension cousin:
https://jetpack.mozillalabs.com/

As for licensing, be sure to read http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/

On May 21, 10:36 am, Changliang Xu <[email protected]> wrote:
> What I did was put my command into the ubiquity source, and compiled
> another version of xpi. I am sure this is not a good practice (also
> let me know if it violates any license), but my intention is to
> deliver my command to a small group for testing and seeking feedback.
>
> Back a while ago, there was a discussion that ubiquity could be used
> to generate any firefox extension, is any progress on that direction?
>
> Thanks,
> Charlie
>
> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Blair McBride <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Unfortunately, there are security issues in letting web pages detect
> > whether Ubiquity is installed. There was a recent discussion about this
> > here:
> >http://groups.google.com/group/ubiquity-firefox/browse_thread/thread/...
>
> > At the moment, the best you can do is:
>
> > * Link a page to the command feed,
> > * Ask the users to install Ubiquity (include a link to the xpi) if they
> > don't see the Ubiquity subscription bar at the top of the page.
>
> > I wish there were a more streamlined way of doing this (that doesn't
> > involve security issues).
>
> > - Blair
>
> > On 21/05/09 9:34 PM, Dave Cross wrote:
>
> >> I'm currently doing some work for Gumtree.com the classified ads site,
> >> and last week I build a prototype of a Ubiquity search command for
> >> them (seehttp://dave.org.uk/ubiquity/gumtree.html).
>
> >> The management are pretty keen on making use of this and they'd like
> >> to make it as easy as possible for their users to install the command.
> >> But most of their users won't have Ubiquity installed, so they've
> >> asked me to find a way to install both Ubiquity and the gumtree
> >> command as easily as possible.
>
> >> I'm thinking of a page that contains logic something like this:
>
> >> If Ubiquity is installed
> >>    Present a link to the gumtree command installation page
> >> Else
> >>    Present a link to ubiquity-latest.xpi
> >>    Wait for ubiquity to be installed and FF restarted
> >>    Install gumtree command
> >> End
>
> >> I'm not sure to what extent some of that is feasible. Particularly the
> >> bit about installing Ubiquity and then (once FF has restarted)
> >> automatically installing a Ubiquity command.
>
> >> Has anyone done anything like this? Are there best practices
> >> documented anywhere?
>
> >> Also, are there any other cases where a web site is distriibuting a
> >> Ubiquity command for searching that site? I haven't come across any.
> >> It would be cool if Gumtree was the first.
>
> >> Cheers,
>
> >> Dave...
>
>
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