Closed
Bug 278940
Opened 20 years ago
Closed 17 years ago
Make AMO's search feature not suck
Categories
(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Public Pages, defect, P5)
addons.mozilla.org Graveyard
Public Pages
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
WORKSFORME
2.0
People
(Reporter: ted, Unassigned)
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Get version numbers back in, only show results for your platform/OS, etc.
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Updated•20 years ago
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Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Showing only compatible results may just confuse someone. If they're searching for Pinball, and they have Firefox 1.1, they wouldn't find it. But they'd know it was on the site, so they'd be frustrated. Gonna have to ponder this.
There's two things 1) Search results showing version & compatibility 2) Being able to perform an advanced search For the latter, bug 247810 has an attachment for this. I don't want the search results to have more than one row per main ID, so we'll have to roll things up.
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Comment 3•20 years ago
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I also want to make the search form have what you searched for filled in. Right now when you do a search, the search form in the header is empty.
I think we need to transition from quicksearch to advanced search. In other words, quicksearch is just a temporary measure. Advanced search would have its own search form with various dropdowns to refine the results. if its not bitrotted, try the search.php from the other bug.
Comment 5•20 years ago
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You should respect compatibilty information, by default. Compatibilty info is *important* to the presentation of Firefox (or any app) to people who are new. do NOT rely on application errors to catch your mistakes, by that point, the User experience has failed.
Comment 6•20 years ago
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I think the search feature seems somewhat broken. I have done several searches for things I know exist, yet I get zero results. The reason is to do with the filtering by OS, which Google has got wrong (having presumably just done what would normally be expected of it). Therefore, some attention needs to be given to the way the filtering-by-OS works. Also I'd really like to see a page of extension titles - all of them (perhaps filtered by OS), so I can search using the browser instead of relying on the search engine. At the moment, there are 19 pages in the All Extensions category, so searching by Google is the only way. And its broken. :-(
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Comment 7•20 years ago
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Rick: are you talking about the Google search, or the new search that hasn't been rolled out to the live site yet? This bug is about the latter.
Going from themes/showlist.php?application=firefox&version=1.0&os=Windows&category=Compact to clickong on Search makes us lose our "remembered" information like the detected OS, app, and version.
We should replace spaces with wildcards. Doing a search for "undo close tab" should have found the extension named "undoclosetab"
Comment 10•19 years ago
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Just searched for 'thunderbird redirect', and it did not pull up the Mail ReDirect extension page: https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=thunderbird&category=Miscellaneous&numpg=10&id=550 Case-correct search did not work either. Russell
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Comment 11•19 years ago
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Russel: it's not the case that's making that search not work. Search only searches the extension name and description, neither of which contain the word "thunderbird". Also comment 9 would probably cause us to not find it anyway, even if thunderbird was in there.
Comment 12•19 years ago
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Hmmm. We might want to consider removing certain words when querying, like "Mozilla", "TB", "Thunderbird".... And of course if someone uses keywords like AND or OR, we don't handle those. Same with negation.
Target Milestone: 1.1 → 2.0
Comment 13•19 years ago
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Updated•19 years ago
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Assignee: ted.mielczarek → Bugzilla-alanjstrBugs
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
QA Contact: mozilla.update → web-ui
Comment 14•18 years ago
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v2 = sexy. Do we think resolved?
Comment 15•18 years ago
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v2 is sexy, but some of the ideas from here are still valid. Paul, can you create a patch against trunk?
Comment 16•18 years ago
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I've not been following v2 for a while so I'd need to update the tree and find the new place to put this in. I'm sure morgamic would be able to do this easier so I've added a CC for him. If not then I'll put it on the list.
Comment 17•18 years ago
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Mass change - bugs to be read / (re)confirmed.
Assignee: Bugzilla-alanjstrBugs → nobody
Priority: -- → P5
Comment 18•18 years ago
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Summary: Make update's search feature not suck → Make AMO's search feature not suck
Comment 19•17 years ago
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I believe we should close this (now that AMOv3 was released) and for improvements to the new search page there is already a bug out there; also, new bugs should ideally be more specific.
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Comment 20•17 years ago
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Sounds good, this was pretty much just to fix the crappiness of my original search impl.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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Updated•8 years ago
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Product: addons.mozilla.org → addons.mozilla.org Graveyard
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