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=== Which aspects of the service do you currently dislike and why? === | === Which aspects of the service do you currently dislike and why? === | ||
* | * It's slower than MXR; enough so to be frustrating in a papercut sort of way. This seems to be partially a client-end thing - i.e. it's not necessarily the network, just that it's doing too much on my end. | ||
* The RegExp field is broken on allizom ([https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770987 Regular expression text search]) (it keeps inserting # all over the place, and... is that running client-side? because it just went slow-script-dialog on me, not to mention hanging Firefox...) | |||
* It doesn't understand XPIDL, JS, Python, Perl, ... | |||
* In fact, Python just errors out (it's probably trying to run it as CGI) ([https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758636 Random python crash]) | |||
* Clicking the ""search"" button near the textboxes can often complain about no tree (i.e. it doesn't pick up the tree= query string in the URL)" | |||
* The lack of MXR parity; the completely unintelligible results for any non-plaintext search on DAO; the lack of example searches on DAO; | * The lack of MXR parity; the completely unintelligible results for any non-plaintext search on DAO; the lack of example searches on DAO; | ||
*dxr.allizom seemingly displays files in last-touched order, not alphabetical. The query box on allizom seems to only accept search queries; entering a path will show search results for the string but not open the file. Browsing and searching seem to be distinctly separate in the UI; I can't switch between the two easily. (Admittedly I can't with MXR either, but I have years of search-URL address bar muscle memory, so it's no longer a hindrance there.) | *dxr.allizom seemingly displays files in last-touched order, not alphabetical. The query box on allizom seems to only accept search queries; entering a path will show search results for the string but not open the file. Browsing and searching seem to be distinctly separate in the UI; I can't switch between the two easily. (Admittedly I can't with MXR either, but I have years of search-URL address bar muscle memory, so it's no longer a hindrance there.) | ||