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    • amatczak
      amatczak Opera @Guest last edited by

      @mopw69 That's VK.com messenger (a social network that's popular in Russia, for example).

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      • A Former User
        A Former User @amatczak last edited by

        @amatczak

        Ah, right! Thank you so much.
        I got a bit confused after a Google search showing me hits like:

        VK Saver extension - Opera add-ons
        Saving from vk-com. Download music and video from vk-com quickly and easily. and download video ...

        and

        Messengers in the sidebar | Opera
        Full web versions of Facebook Messenger, VKontakte and WhatsApp are now nested in your sidebar...

        hence my forum search.

        Anyway, thanks again!

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        • A Former User
          A Former User @Guest last edited by

          @mopw69 said in Opera Forums Search Box Drop Down List:

          Clicking on an item in the drop down results list, after performing a search, indeed nothing happens.

          [Off-topic]
          In this respect I was searching for information on what 'VK' meant in the sidebar settings.
          Vainly searched in 'Help' - probably overlooking something. After a number of searches (Google) I assume VK relates to Virtual Keyboard.

          Using Opera v60.0.x

          SnagIt-26042019 074439.png

          Later

          Just a note - I tried Chrome and Edge: same problem.

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          • A Former User
            A Former User last edited by

            After a search and within the search results I click on either of the posts displayed in the search result panel. I would expect the forum software to direct me to the post itself.
            However, nothing happens.

            For example:
            I search for : Sync now
            click on the first hit, nothing happens, I remain on the same page.
            Any suggestions?

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            • leocg
              leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

              Merging

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              • amatczak
                amatczak Opera @Guest last edited by

                @mopw69

                Hi 🙂

                I tried now, but cannot reproduce the issue anymore.

                For me it looks like a recent NodeBB upgrade fixed the problem - I can click on the pop-up and it takes me to appropriate post. Works the same in Opera, Chrome and Firefox.

                What browser/OS combination are you using? Can you try a different browser or an incognito mode?

                Thanks!

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                • A Former User
                  A Former User @amatczak last edited by

                  @amatczak
                  Thanks for getting back on this.
                  I am using the latest Opera version (62.0.3331.43) and Windows 10 x64.

                  Made a short video of the issue

                  https://1drv.ms/v/s!AkRaefqU_yzsiJohpvlQTj3DkiEgLg?e=8DKymH

                  Yesterday I also tried using Google Search to search the forum, like:
                  Google Search [site:forums.opera.com sync now]
                  (Note: I tried a few other thread titles as well..)

                  When I clicked on a search result, I ended up on the main forum list only, i.e. the thread/post was not displayed. Weird, but true, at least with me.
                  However, it seems that it is solved now: doing the same Google search and clicking on the title in the results brings me to right thread.

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                  • A Former User
                    A Former User @amatczak last edited by A Former User

                    @amatczak

                    please ignore the above post, regretfully I can't delete it myself.

                    search works fine now.
                    sorry for the confusion.

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                    • sharkyca
                      sharkyca @amatczak last edited by

                      @amatczak said in Opera Forums Search Box Drop Down List:

                      @mopw69

                      Hi 🙂

                      I tried now, but cannot reproduce the issue anymore.

                      For me it looks like a recent NodeBB upgrade fixed the problem - I can click on the pop-up and it takes me to appropriate post. Works the same in Opera, Chrome and Firefox.

                      What browser/OS combination are you using? Can you try a different browser or an incognito mode?

                      Thanks!

                      Hi Amatczak, I started this thread back in April, the problem still exists!
                      I had a crash on my system and am currently using MS EDGE as my browser Ver 18.18362 (44.18362.1.0)
                      Opera Snip.jpg

                      As you can see from the pic the fields drop down ok but clicking on the "contents" does nothing, I suspect the code for that has been left out but I am not a programmer!

                      Good luck, keep us informed!
                      Sharky

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                      • A Former User
                        A Former User last edited by A Former User

                        Yes, indeed, I think the issue still exists.

                        SnagIt-16072019 052654.png

                        SnagIt-16072019 052826.png

                        Note: Initially I thought the issue was solved - reason why I wrote a comment to 'ignore my previous post'. However, after checking again just now, indeed, as said, the problem still exists.

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                        • amatczak
                          amatczak Opera @Guest last edited by amatczak

                          @mopw69 I am a little bit confused.

                          On this video it can be seen that you are first here: https://forums.opera.com/topic/31654/opera-forums-search-box-drop-down-list/14 (as I can see the fragment of that post). After typing "sync now" and clicking that search result you are taken to https://forums.opera.com/topic/30969/syncing-is-now-manual/1 (you can see the displayed topic changed). So... isn't that expected behaviour? Where's the issue?

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                          • justinjack
                            justinjack Banned @amatczak last edited by

                            @amatczak not working

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                            • sharkyca
                              sharkyca last edited by sharkyca

                              Is anyone looking at this issue? I reported it back in April 2019 and as far as I can see the problem still exists!

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                              • leocg
                                leocg Moderator Volunteer @sharkyca last edited by

                                @sharkyca Did you read the topic?

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                                • sharkyca
                                  sharkyca @leocg last edited by

                                  @leocg Many times since April when I posted it!

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                                  • sharkyca
                                    sharkyca @leocg last edited by

                                    @leocg cc0d3e2d-d8a7-47a6-9e31-05c78d0050ad-image.png

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                                    • leocg
                                      leocg Moderator Volunteer @sharkyca last edited by leocg

                                      @sharkyca So i guess I can assume that you already know the answer for your question.

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                                      • amatczak
                                        amatczak Opera @sharkyca last edited by

                                        @sharkyca I was looking into this issue quite extensively. Sorry, but I cannot reproduce it on any of my browsers and any of my devices, though. I honestly have no idea why some users have problem with that feature - and what's more confusing is the fact that even people in this thread have a hard time figuring out whether it works for them or not. For instance @mopw69 posts a video that is supposed to show the issue, but as far as I can tell it shows the opposite - that the search box works.

                                        So unless someone can provide a reliable way to reproduce this or figure out what all of the affected people have in common - I cannot spend more time chasing this.

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                                        • sharkyca
                                          sharkyca @amatczak last edited by

                                          @amatczak said in Opera Forums Search Box Drop Down List:

                                          @sharkyca I was looking into this issue quite extensively. Sorry, but I cannot reproduce it on any of my browsers and any of my devices, though. I honestly have no idea why some users have problem with that feature - and what's more confusing is the fact that even people in this thread have a hard time figuring out whether it works for them or not. For instance @mopw69 posts a video that is supposed to show the issue, but as far as I can tell it shows the opposite - that the search box works.

                                          So unless someone can provide a reliable way to reproduce this or figure out what all of the affected people have in common - I cannot spend more time chasing this.

                                          @amatczak I tried getting more info for you on this and duplicating the results on my end. Using 3 different browsers I was able to recreate the problem on MS Edge vers 44.18362.1.0, Chromium vers 75.0.3770.142 and Opera vers 62.0.3331.99.
                                          The real interesting part was when I turned on "screen recorder" from Windows accessories to record the problem it seemed to reset the browsers and the drop downs worked OK in ALL 3 BROWSERS, this leads me to suspect since they are ALL based on Chrome and I am running in a Windows 10 environment that it is more likely related to Windows than Opera! I am not a programmer but I do have a long history with computers going back to the days of IBM and mainframes, please give a quick look at the "screen clips" from Windows Recorder if you can! The shared links are here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y5y4ThPtJ1A9ANNUMsEB9f643q6xVwgC/view?usp=sharing
                                          https://drive.google.com/file/d/15CoTXuUxy802AamtCgm4oWHILsse0MRn/view?usp=sharing

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                                          • amatczak
                                            amatczak Opera @sharkyca last edited by

                                            @sharkyca OK, thanks. I did some more research using BrowserStack and indeed the problem seems to happen when I tried in Edge on Windows 10. It looks very weird, because clicking the same item sometimes does not work, and usually work when clicking it again. I also got more failures the quicker I clicked after the dropdown shows. Waiting a little bit between hovering and clicking the item usually made it work (though not always!).

                                            I will look on your recordings of course. But I'll be honest - the issue seems non-trivial to pinpoint and does not affect all users, so probably it won't be the top of our priority list 😞

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