"Advanced Search" - sometimes options don't render

mshanann on 28/11/2012 - 12:24

Hi Scotty

I'm running Firefox ESR 10.0.10 on 64bit Windows 7.

When I run a search, sometimes the Advanced Options link/expandable-popout thing don't get rendered. Othertimes the link becomes active.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/5/snap1yy.png/

Any ideas what could be going on?

I believe this has only changed in the last month or so.

Also, just wondering if it is not too difficult that you could add an option to a user's profile allowing them to specifiy their default search/sort criteria.

When I enter a search, I want my results listed as sorted by posting date by default.

thanks

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  • scotty on 28/11/2012 - 12:36

    what could be going on?

    Well. Here's the technical answer.

    The drop down arrow next to "Advanced Search" is rendered after everything on the page is loaded — images, Javascript, etc. HOWEVER sometimes something took ages to load, and the culprit is usually with the ads (not the Google one, but the banner on the right), as Google sometimes out-source those ads to 3rd party networks that might have a buggy ads showing.

    An easy fix would be for us to render the dropdown arrow as soon the main content is displayed. I'll look into that.

  • drunk on 22/01/2013 - 21:46

    This is happening to me today too. Did you ever find a fix/work-around?

  • drunk on 22/01/2013 - 21:56

    I just found a work-around for my purposes at least….

    [ http://www.ozbargain.com.au/search/node/words-to-search-for+… ]

    Would seem logical to me to have those options as the default search anyways, maybe I'm missing something ?

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