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Bug report: search interface broken

  • June 11, 2025
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On the web (using chrome on a desktop machine AND on a laptop), the search interface has been broken. If you click on the magnifying glass a field to enter the search text appears but it disappears before you get the chance to use is.

Best answer by Jana_S

@Elroch can you try disabling all browser add-ons and try without them? Quite often there's something interfering with the website features (especially all kinds of ad-blockers).

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Jan_Mantau
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  • June 11, 2025

I can’t reproduce this problem.


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  • June 11, 2025

@Elroch can you try disabling all browser add-ons and try without them? Quite often there's something interfering with the website features (especially all kinds of ad-blockers).


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  • June 15, 2025

Excellent suggestion that I should have followed before posting here, in truth! 
I found that switching off the half dozen extensions I had enabled made the otherwise consistently repeatable problem disappear. So then I tried to find what extension it was that caused the problem. The surprising result was that with exactly the same extensions re-enabled, the problem did not return.

I don’t understand exactly what happened here, but solving the problem is a result!