40812 - Bugzilla search doesn't work

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Documentation Graveyard :: Help Viewer, defect, P3)

Description

[rje33]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i586; en-US; m16) Gecko/20000526
BuildID:    2000062608

Whenever I try searching for a bug, it just returns me back to this page,
without showing me any matching bugs, or telling me that there were no matches.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to web page
2. Type in something to search for
3. Click search, or press return

Actual Results:  Go back to the same page

Expected Results:  See a list of search results.

Comment 1

[Dan McGuirk]

I see this too.  More specifically, what I see is that you click on the "Search"
button on the "Bugzilla Helper" page, and nothing happens (no new window with
the search results is created).

Comment 2

[Wilbur Killebrew]

This is specific to Mozilla.  Works OK with Netscape 4.7, but not with Mozilla
build 2000052620.

Comment 3

[rudman]

Reassigning to Endico. Dawn, I assume you might get this bug, in view of 
Christine's departure.

The original bug report suggested that clicking Search or Return produced the 
same result. But when I tried to reproduce using Communicator, the behaviors 
were different: Clicking Return popped me back to the top of the Bugzilla Helper 
page, whereas clicking Search provided the search results page. I didn't try to 
reproduce with mozilla, but thought I wanted to pass the info along (and now I'm 
passing the buck, too).

Comment 4

[Dan McGuirk]

I think there are two separate bugs here-- one is that pressing 'return' doesn't
work on any browser (Bugzilla Helper bug), and the other is that pressing the
'search' button doesn't work on Mozilla only (Mozilla bug).

In other words,
NS4:      Press return:           reloads the 'Bugzilla Helper' page.
          Press 'search' button:  displays new page with search results.

Mozilla:  Press return:           reloads the 'Bugzilla Helper' page.
          Press 'search' button:  nothing happens.

Comment 5

[gary_Cope]

I found that this bug had slightly different results for me :

Hit Return: reloads Bugzilla Helper Page
then hit Search: Opens TWO new pages with the search results
(Close new windows)
hit search again: Opens one new page with the search results

ie The first time Search is pressed after the page has been reloaded, TWO new
windows are opened.

Using build ID 2000092116 WIN98

Comment 6

[Dawn Endico]

gerv owns the bug helper

Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Not sure what's happened here, as this used to work and I haven't changed it.
Hmm... IE 4.0 throws an error, but I don't know how to get it to tell me which 
bit it doesn't like. NS 4.74 doesn't mind at all.

I did change this form to allow "return" to do a Submit, but that was a while 
back. Maybe I did it the wrong way. I'm not a JS guru - if anyone CCed on 
this bug can work out what the problem is, I'd be very grateful :-)

Gerv

Comment 8

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

I've backed out the "Enter submits" page. If anyone can find a problem with this 
form which is definitely not a bug in Mozilla, please reopen this bug :-)

Gerv

Comment 9

[Brant Gurganus]

V, This redirects now anyway and is built into Bugzilla.