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Where Mozilla Ubiquity Failed, Ubuntu HUD will Succeed

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“I’m not easily impressed by ‘new’ ideas in the Linux desktop
space, which is why the Ubuntu HUD is even more interesting to
me.

The HUD is based on a concept that I really believe in and
supported (though my own usage and newb attempt at script) when
Mozilla tried the same idea a few years ago with Ubiquity. Mozilla
however has this obnoxious habit of killing projects that I like
(or in their parlance – putting them on the backburner – ubiquity,
prism, skywriter just to name a few). Ubiquity was supposed to
become something called Taskfox in Firefox 3.6 but that never
happened.


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