[WikiEN-l] The New Look

[Ian Woollard]

On 13/05/2010, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Ian Woollard <ian.woollard at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Under firefox, the new search box is quite buggy actually. I just
>> tried typing really quickly into it on a slow machine, and ended up
>> with only half the information appearing; the third time the full
>> information briefly appeared, and then shortened itself and in each
>
> I've just run into this a couple of times...  And I'm not on a slow
> machine (or is a dual core 64bit 2ghz machine now slow?).
>
> I also hit it on commons all the time, but figured it was a result of
> the crazy JS we've always got running over there.

No, it's a horrible, horrible bug in the search box.

To be honest, I think this bug should have gated the release; about
50% of the page hits go through this one box, and it's rewriting what
the users type.

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-Ian Woollard