It allows you to search Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome history directly from Unity Dash

Jul 4, 2012 02:11 GMT  ·  By

Following our previous articles, Rotten Tomatoes Scope, Clear Dark Sky Lens, DuckDuckGo Lens, News Lens, Pidgin Lens, Bliss Lens, Wikipedia Lens, Bookmarks Lens, ManPages Search Lens, Full Text Search Lens, GMusicBrowser Scope, Launchpad Lens, Dictionary Lens, Stock Quotes Lens, Cooking Lens, Music Search Scopes, Reddit Lens, Tomboy Lens, Ask Ubuntu Lens, Ubuntu Flickr/Shotwell Photos Lens, Ubuntu Spotify Scope, Ubuntu DeviantArt Scope, Ubuntu SSH Lens, Ubuntu Binary Clock Lens, Ubuntu YouTube Lens and ScopeUbuntu Calendar LensUbuntu Web Sources LensUbuntu Gwibber LensUbuntu Books LensUbuntu Cities ScopeUbuntu Grooveshark ScopeUbuntu Calculator Scope and Pirate Bay Torrents Lens for Unity, today we are introducing the Ubuntu Web History Lens for the Unity interface.

The Ubuntu Web History Lens is a very useful Unity Dash plugin that allows users to search the web history of their installed Mozilla Firefox and/or Google Chrome web browser.

To install the Unity Web History Lens plugin in your Ubuntu operating system, open a terminal window (hit the CTRL+ALT+T key combination) and paste the following commands (one by one, hitting Enter after each one):

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:markjtully/ppa sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y install unity-web-history-lens zeitgeist-datasource-firefox

You will need to restart your session after the installation. This Lens is available for the Ubuntu 11.04, Ubuntu 11.10, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 12.10 operating systems.

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