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andygeers replied on August 19, 2009 09:19 to the question "URL nouns not recognised" in Mozilla:

Is there some kind of limit on the number of suggestions it offers you? Is it possible that tinyurl just rates lower than all of the other suggestions I'm being given? (even though most of them just take a plain string and I have a URL selected)

andygeers replied on August 18, 2009 17:00 to the question "URL nouns not recognised" in Mozilla:

To give a bit more info, I'm using Ubiquity 0.5.4 under Firefox 3.5.1 under Linux.

andygeers asked a question in Mozilla on August 18, 2009 16:59:

URL nouns not recognised

I'm trying to use commands like the built in "tinyurl", and it seems it often doesn't recognise the text I'm entering as a URL and so doesn't offer "tinyurl" as a verb suggestion. If I type "tinyurl http://www.google.com/" then it comes up as an option, but if I use other domain names, or type "tinyurl http://www.google.com/<anything>" then suddenly the "tinyurl" suggestion disappears.</anything>

A comment on the problem "Ubiquity 0.5 preview unusably slow" in Mozilla:

The speed seems totally fine for me now, a lot faster than 0.1.8 at any rate – andygeers, on June 26, 2009 14:54

andygeers reported a problem in Mozilla on June 26, 2009 11:40:

Poor suggestions for searches

Was just trying to do a Twitter search for some text in 0.5pre2 under Firefox 3.5b4, and figured I could just type "search twitter <query>" to get going, but as you can see from the attached screenshots the suggestions I was given were very poor. It didn't help that I had some irrelevant text selected on the underlying page, but even deselecting that didn't really improve matters.

I guess strictly you need to type "search with X <query>", but I think it should offer that even if you just type "search <single_word_that_is_a_known_search_engine> <query>"

</query></single_word_that_is_a_known_search_engine></query></query>

andygeers shared an idea in Mozilla on June 26, 2009 08:39:

Previous suggestions shouldn't vanish whilst you type

With the new asynchronous suggestions in 0.5, if I type, say "twitter This is a test", the "twitter ..." suggestion keeps vanishing for every keypress, only to reappear a moment later once the suggestion has loaded. I think that unless you are pressing backspace/delete/paste, it should assume that the previously offered suggestion is still valid until the point where the new set of suggestions has loaded. It feels a bit silly at the moment to see it keep flashing when there's not actually any change.

andygeers replied on June 26, 2009 08:36 to the problem "Nothing happens if you hit enter too quickly" in Mozilla:

I'm still getting this in 0.5pre2

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andygeers replied on June 25, 2009 13:10 to the problem "Nothing happens if you hit enter too quickly" in Mozilla:

I should add that I'm running under Linux (Fedora Core 6)

andygeers replied on June 25, 2009 13:10 to the problem "Ubiquity 0.5 preview unusably slow" in Mozilla:

I should add that I'm running under Linux (Fedora Core 6)

andygeers reported a problem in Mozilla on June 25, 2009 10:25:

Nothing happens if you hit enter too quickly

Using the 0.5 preview in Firefox 3.5b4, if I press Ctrl+Space then type a command then press enter very quickly before it's had a chance to load in the suggestions then the Ubiquity window closes but nothing happens.

andygeers reported a problem in Mozilla on June 25, 2009 08:47:

Ubiquity 0.5 preview unusably slow

I'm trying out the preview of Ubiquity 0.5 with Firefox 3.5b4 and it is unusably slow, locking up my computer for extended periods whenever I try and open up the Ubiquity window and type commands.

It seems to be related to suggesting commands and previewing the results. e.g. if I select the URL in the address bar and open up Ubiquity and start typing the "tinyurl" command, it hangs for a second or two until a few more suggestions appear and it then becomes responsive again. If I select a random bunch of text and start typing "twitter" it hangs for several seconds whilst it figures out what command I mean, then guesses I want to "search twitter for" and which point it hangs again (to preview the results?). Only eventually after I've had time to type sufficient text that it works out I really do want to twitter it rather than search twitter does it become responsive enough to actually type my twitter message.

andygeers replied on June 23, 2009 11:14 to the idea "Preview webpages to see what's on the other end of a tinyurl link." in Mozilla:

Good point, @Thomas, though it could always do it like the Wikipedia preview were you see the main text of the page but without a full HTML preview.

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andygeers replied on April 16, 2009 18:52 to the problem "Ubiquity Twitter command picks nonsense username by default" in Mozilla:

I'm using Ubiquity 1.8 with Firefox 3.0.8

andygeers reported a problem in Mozilla on April 16, 2009 13:01:

Ubiquity Twitter command picks nonsense username by default

If I select the address of the page I'm currently on, and type "twitter this" into the Ubiquity window, by default it tries to use the selected text as the *username* to twitter as. http://www.google.com/ makes for a pretty funny username!

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andygeers replied on March 29, 2009 15:23 to the problem "Ubiquity twitter command truncates messages containing "as"" in Mozilla:

So how do I tell Ubiquity that the word "as" forms part of the message rather than as a username specifyer? Why doesn't "as" work like "this", where you get to choose what you mean by it?

andygeers reported a problem in Mozilla on March 26, 2009 12:44:

Ubiquity twitter command truncates messages containing "as"

If I try and write a "twitter" command message that contains the word "as", it truncates the message at that point in the command preview. It doesn't offer any alternatives to allow me to treat "as" like a normal word. I assume it's a magic Ubiquity keyword, but normally in those cases you get offered choices as to what you mean.