Can anyone of the affected people try to reproduce on https://community.nodebb.org?

Firefox 68.0.2 (without extensions) and Opera 62.0.3331.116 stable (only with Opera Ad Blocker as extension) on Windows 7 32-bit:

Search terms used:

• search field
• search box
• search plugin

Result:

• All attempts to access an entry from the dropdown hit list by clicking on it fail in the Opera forum.
• In the NodeBB forum all attempts are successful.

I noticed that you can only use the forum search in the NodeBB forum if you are logged in: As a guest you are redirected to the login page. Here in the Opera-Forum the search is also available for guests.

The Opera-Forum has more than twice as many categories as the NoteBB-Forum, which may also require special character sets e.g. for some of our local subforums.

By the way: Firefox displays an icon in the search box on both forums, Opera does not. If you click on it, the page https://forums.opera.com/search or https://community.nodebb.org/search will be opened:



FWIW: Firefox and Opera are installed as portable versions here. I could make them available on request, since I have no personal data stored (bookmarks, speed dials, passwords, history, etc.). This might make it possible to check whether the same installations that fail on my computer work as intended on another.

Can anyone of the affected people try to reproduce on https://community.nodebb.org?

Other forums that use NodeBB as forum software also seem to be affected by this issue, for example:

Thread title: Search function of the forum

Question by Franz47:

There is such a question in the forum, only if I click on this result of the search function, it doesn't trigger anything. Is there a solution? I tried it with Firefox and Chrome, it doesn't work with both browsers.

Answer by styroll (a highly respected member there):

You probably mean the suggestions that appear directly below the search field. When I click on a suggestion, nothing happens (I can't remember that it ever worked).

FWIW, I just gave it a try with a fairly clean Windows 10 x64 running in VMware Workstation. That Windows version is v903 (build 18362.267 - currently the latest one).
Same problem.
Enter any search string, scroll down in the drop down result list and pick anything from there. After 3 different search strings and three attempts, I didn't test it any further.

I merely wanted to check whether it also happened with a later version of Windows.

https://whatis.techtarget.com/fileformat/MHTML-MHTML-document-MIME

MHTML (short for MIME HTML) is a file extension for a Web page archive file format as saved by Internet Explorer. The archived Web page is an MHTML document. MHTML saves the Web page content and incorporates external resources, such as images, applets, Flash animations and so on, into HTML documents.

I just made a new video and you will see that sometimes picking a thread from the drop down search results works fine, but sometimes it doesn't, it is a bit 50/50.

Obviously I have no idea why sometimes it doesn't work. Leave it to the website developers to figure out.
Please give it some extra tries.
Right now I use Google site search, site:forums.opera.com

https://youtu.be/fs-0bwREM7k

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

@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

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.

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?

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.

@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)

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

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

search works fine now.
sorry for the confusion.