This is a known issue in Parser 2, which is on by default in 0.5.x

http://ubiquity.mozilla.com/trac/ticket/838

It is a priority bug to get fixed, as we agree it is a MAJOR problem
in Ubiquity.

Heather

On Aug 9, 2:50 am, limejuice <[email protected]> wrote:
> I upgraded my ubiqutiy plugin to 0.5.2a1 today from 0.4.x (not sure
> exact previous version), and what I immediately found seems to be a
> severe usability problem.
>
> Before, I could select some text and then CTRL+space and type a
> command like "amaz" for amazon and hit ENTER, and it would load amazon
> with the selected text.  Now, with 0.5.2a1, it does nothing unless I
> wait several seconds for it to display the matches in the ubiquity
> dropdown panel.
>
> One thing I do alot is if I have a list of ISBN numbers for books, I
> will double-click each one to select the ISBN number, and then hit CTRL
> +space +ENTER very quickly and it will use my last ubiquity
> command ,e.g. "amazon-search".
>
> The current behavior where you have to wait for the matches to load in
> the ubiquity panel before hitting ENTER is very big regression IMO.
> It has drastically lowered my productivity with using ubiquity.   I
> would rate this as a Severity 1 Usability bug.
>
> The matches window may be nice for certain use cases, but in the case
> where the user knows exactly what he wants, you don't want to have any
> delay in showing the command's website, and certainly you shouldn't be
> cancelling the command alltogether.
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