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Timofei reported a problem in Mozilla on August 09, 2009 19:42:

Annoying Alt+something hotkey problem

configuration: Windows XP, Firefox 3.5 Russian, Ubiquity 0.5.3, Ubiquity Evolved skin

When the hotkey is set to Alt+letter, i.e. Alt+X, often after pressing this keychord the focus will be not in Ubiquity prompt, but rather in the Firefox menu. It is then necessary to switch focus with a mouse before I can type anything.

This has been happening since update to 0.5.

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Timofei replied on July 09, 2009 12:39 to the problem "Ubiquity weather doesn't recognize foreign cities" in Mozilla:

The weather command is broken. You're lucky it works for you at all, because it wouldn't for most of the world's population, and it wouldn't work for you when you will be visiting Geneva, Switzerland. See: http://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla/to... (last comment)

Timofei replied on July 09, 2009 12:33 to the problem "Ubiquity 0.5 window is blinking when typing in the command" in Mozilla:

Yes, I tried 0.5 for a few minutes and had to switch back, because it is incredibly annoying. Also, I am using Alt-X as the Ubiquity chord, and when I press it, the Firefox menu gets focus instead of the Ubiquty command line for some reason. These 2 issues make 0.5 unusable for me.

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Timofei replied on May 31, 2009 12:01 to the question "No weather preview with the new update!" in Mozilla:

Here is what current_conditions node of http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=... looks like for me:

http://paste.lisp.org/display/81106

Ubiquity weather command tries to do this: "WEATHER_TYPES.indexOf( condition.toLowerCase() )", where WEATHER_TYPES is a list of weather conditions in English. This returns -1 for every unlisted weather condition, so every non-English user has this bug. Later, it tries to retrieve image "http://l.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/nws/weather/gr/-1d.png", which is actually not an image at all, but a Yahoo 404 error page.

Later, the following is executed: var wind_text = el.find("wind_condition").attr("data").split("at"); , which is also English-centric because the string wouldn't contain "at" for non-English user.

So, one of these bugs causes the preview to not show up at all for non-English users (according to Google API).

Timofei replied on May 19, 2009 08:36 to the question "No weather preview with the new update!" in Mozilla:

There was no weather preview since Ubiquity 0.1.1 (it worked in 0.1). During this time I used versions of Firefox from 3.0.n to 3.5 beta 4, neither of which showed preview. I usually use Firefox localised to Russian. I tested this on 3 different PC, on different Internet connections, in different places throughout the world (I travel a lot).

The preview string is always "Weather in x", where x is the place I'm looking for. Every other command works just fine.

When I looked up the source code, I checked the URL that Ubiquity uses (Google API), and when pasted into Firefox address bar, it returns correct XML file that Ubiquity is supposed to parse. However it doesn't. Therefore I believe there is a bug in Ubiquity weather code that was introduced between 0.1 and 0.1.1 and that is somehow triggered on the 3 PCs that I installed Ubiquity on.

Timofei replied on May 18, 2009 15:28 to the problem "interesting plurkers gone" in Plurk:

I agree, you should bring it back. Plurk search doesn't supersede it.

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Timofei replied on May 18, 2009 09:55 to the question "No weather preview with the new update!" in Mozilla:

Still no preview as of 0.1.8. And no, I'm not using NoScript.

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Timofei replied on January 01, 2009 15:20 to the idea "Why no keyboard scrolling?" in Mozilla:

Agreed, my "netbook"'s screen is only 600 pixels high, so it often happens that the whole preview doesn't fit. Could the preview area at least have a scrollbar?

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Timofei Shatrov reported a problem in Mozilla on December 18, 2008 12:15:

Can't subscribe to herd

1.0.3rc6, can see the subscribe button, but when I click it nothing happens at all. Tested on 2 PCs.

Timofei Shatrov replied on December 12, 2008 13:43 to the question "How can I create a Ubiquity command for a shopping site?" in Mozilla:

You can use jQuery to submit the POST data:

http://docs.jquery.com/Ajax/jQuery.post

then use the callback function to display the result.

Timofei Shatrov reported a problem in Mozilla on December 10, 2008 13:08:

Sinister bug in 0.1.3 beta (command editor)

Basically, a string like

<%

var test = "<object width='100' height='100'";

%>

may sometimes grow for no reason at all, corrupting the file. I'm not exactly sure what preconditions for the bug are, but it seem to involve how symbols ", < and ' interact. It is messing up my code all the time, very nasty.

Here is a video of it in action:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-ocMX...

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