Labs/Ubiquity/Ubiquity 0.5.2 Release Notes

Initial notes by mitcho -- please revise.

Main Features

Ubiquity 0.5.2 makes a number of incremental changes to improve Ubiquity's localizability and usability.

Download It

If you already have Ubiquity 0.5 or 0.5.1, it will automatically update itself soon (you can also go to the add-ons manager and click "Find Updates" if you are feeling impatient). If you don't already have Ubiquity installed, you can get the latest version of Ubiquity here.

Thanks

Thanks to Lech Deregowski who spearheaded the major work required to make about:ubiquity and related pages localizable. The new command reminder feature was made possible by the support and encouragement of many Labs engineers and was implemented in just over a day by mitcho and Brandon.

In Depth

The complete list of fixes for this release can be viewed at the Ubiquity 0.5.2 milestone

Suggestion Ranking and Scoring

Improving the algorithm and individual components involved with ranking suggestions for users was a major focus of 0.5.2. To this end, the following changes were made:

• Verb suggestion memory was implemented. Now more commonly used verbs will be ranked higher.
• Many nountypes' scoring algorithms are now markedly improved (#746), as was documented in a series of blog posts: introduction, day 1, day 2, day 3.