Search with Mozilla/Firefox why the hell not?

speedyjoe

Will any of the site admins ever bother to pull their fingers out and fix the search engine so it works with Firefox/Mozilla?

It seems bloody stupid that a site dedicated to money saving doesn't support searches with the biggest free open browser.

The old site's search didn't work with Mozilla and I know I'm not the only one who said when the new site was announced "oh at long last the search will be fixed!". But oh no a forlorn hope.

At least it could say something like "Sorry - search does not support Mozilla/Firefox" when a search is tried, rather than "Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms." That's just bloody silly.

Oh well I suppose this post will be ignored along with the numerous emails to support.

Joe

SimplyAUser

speedyjoe is right.

Firefox search does not work for many of us.

I normally use google to search the forums
e.g. if I were to search for this post, I will use the following on Google.

site:forums.moneysavingexpert.com Search with Mozilla/Firefox why the hell not?

I hope this helps.

SimplyAUser

Although the above search will not bring back results until the Google Crawlers have read it.

So the site administrators, please look into this.

sra

Look at this thread.

There should be no difference between Firefox and IE when searching the forums.

There is a problem in that the forum will not accept keywords beginning with capital letters - even when the result has a capital. But that's for both IE and Firefox.

I'll need to see if this week I can post a couple of unoffical search plugins for the forum and the main site. They're relatively easy to make but need to get/make an icon and host is somewhere.

wirm

I've never had any problems using Firefox.

sra

It's not just MSE that has problems with vbulletins searches. Have a look at www.digitalspy.co.uk Theirs keeps crashing. They've been relying on google searched for a while - though they've restored normal search for registered members.

For a while you couldn't do anything on that site that required a search - including things like finding all previous posts by a member and the like

NellyLock

sra wrote:

Look at this thread.

There should be no difference between Firefox and IE when searching the forums.

There is a problem in that the forum will not accept keywords beginning with capital letters - even when the result has a capital. But that's for both IE and Firefox.

I'll need to see if this week I can post a couple of unoffical search plugins for the forum and the main site. They're relatively easy to make but need to get/make an icon and host is somewhere.

feel free to use my plugin...http://mse.neillock.co.uk/#FirefoxSearch, "unofficial" but workable till an official version comes out...i have bben using it for about 6 months now and seems to work.
neil

sra

NellyLock wrote:

feel free to use my plugin...http://neillock.co.uk/mseffox.php, "unofficial" but workable till an official version comes out...i have bben using it for about 6 months now and seems to work.
neil

i have one that returns search results as posts rather than threads. But that was just cobbled together rather than written to standard.

I'm sure I built one to search the main site but I seem to have misplaced it somewhere

Rex_Mundi

I only ever use Firefox for this site and the search works fine for me.

speedyjoe

NellyLock wrote:

feel free to use my plugin...http://neillock.co.uk/mseffox.php, "unofficial" but workable till an official version comes out...i have bben using it for about 6 months now and seems to work.
neil

That works, brilliant! Now every time my wife uses the site, like she does only occasionally, I won't have to explain that to get the search to work she has to use IE. Just now how do I get her to remember to use the search bar? :-)

Joe

NellyLock

sra wrote:

i have one that returns search results as posts rather than threads. But that was just cobbled together rather than written to standard.

I'm sure I built one to search the main site but I seem to have misplaced it somewhere

dumped my "posts" search on there too now - tis the bottom ffox search plugin.

Neil