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"Search this Forum" on Android

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  • 27-09-2013 1:54pm
    #1
    ppshay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 322 ✭✭


    If I use the "Search this Forum" feature on a Galaxy S3 it returns a Google web search. It leaves Boards altogether. Search this Forum > Advanced Search is fine.


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    Boards.ie: Alvis
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    Hi there,

    That's quite peculiar, are you using the touch site or the desktop site on your phone?

    Can you describe in detail what happens when you try to search a forum, does the query you enter get carried over to the Google web search?

    Which browser are you using?

    Thanks,
    Alvis.


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    #3
    ppshay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 322 ✭✭ppshay


    In the Liverpool superthread, I typed the word "Brendan" into "Search this thread". I got redirected to:

    https://www.google.ie/search?safe=images&source=android-browser-type&client=ms-android-samsung&redir_esc=&q=brendan&qsubts=1380540849994&devloc=0&hl=en-IE

    i.e., I leave boards and go to google.ie with web results for the search term entered in boards.

    It's the stock browser on Android 4.1.2


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    #4
    Boards.ie: Alvis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 161 ✭✭Boards.ie: Alvis


    Hey there,

    Sorry for the delay on this, but the "Search this forum" on the desktop site does exhibit really unpredictable behaviour in mobile browsers. It will disappear when you click into the text area, and in the case of the Galaxy S3's stock browser, you'll actually start typing into your address bar and hence why you get Google search results. On a Galaxy Nexus stock browser, it'll just go straight to "Advanced Search" with no params. I can't even type into at all in Chrome for Android.

    It's to do with the JS, we'll patch it up as soon as possible and let you know.

    Alvis.


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