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I thought this was going to be about stuff like Ubiquity: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity

Loved that back when they tried it.

Here's an old screenshot: https://imgur.com/O8rN9fK

Since there doesn't appear to be any on the site.

It was great. Just directly interact with all kinds of apis from a commandline-like environment, within your browser.

With how popular command palettes have become (in things like text editors), I'm a little surprised this hasn't stuck for browsers. I really enjoyed the various implementations of this kind of thing for browsers but often found them lacking in ways that I think a native implementation would be more effective.

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