Closed Bug 374303 Opened 18 years ago Closed 18 years ago

bug searches are awkward

Categories

(Bugzilla :: Creating/Changing Bugs, defect)

Product:
Bugzilla
Component:
Creating/Changing Bugs
Platform:
PowerPC
macOS
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 372589

People

(Reporter: tds, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070221 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 Build Identifier: When I search for bugs the results are so hard to read that I have to give up. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. enter abc news video 2. try to locate something relevant Actual Results: I get flooded with irrelevant pages. bbc reports came up for abc news. The box is so small that I can't see more than a few at a time. The descriptions usually don't match. Expected Results: Put the search results on a separate page in a new window. Show the context of the words. Search for closer words first. Look how google does this. One can find useful things with google. I have to give up searching most of the time because of the flood of irrelevant hits.
No idea which URL/website you are referring to, but that's unrelated to Bugzilla.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 18 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Frederic: The abc news video case is and EXAMPLE of the problem. It shows how one has this cramped space to work in to find one of hundreds of pages. It is very awkward to work with that list - so awkward that I invariably skim the first few and give up. It's easier to report a bug and have someone else identify the related bugs than to spend hours reading irrelevant bugs. So I am marking this a a 'Reopen bug'. If it doesn't work for me, please REOPEN THIS BUG. You were distracted by the example and missed the problem. Thanks.
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: INVALID → ---
It is no surprise that 50% of the reported bugs already exist. Finding the previously known issues is essentially impossible and the tool made to do it is sub standard.
I think you're talking about the duplicates page on the guided reporting form? Search results do come up on a new page, when you search normally. Perhaps the installation you're searching on has been customized in some bad way. Feel free to post a URL that shows what you're talking about. However, don't reopen this bug. (See 2.2 here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html )
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 18 years ago → 18 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
First, 2.2 is not relevant. I was not demanding that this bug be fixed, I was reporting a serious bug that is making more work for the people who actually fix bugs because it is easier to report a bug than to fight to figure out what related bugs already exist. The URL I was talking about is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Mozilla%20Application%20Suite&format=guided Thanks for finding bug 372589, that is indeed a much more clear description of the problem. So this can indeed remain closed.
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