[Geneseo1911]

When I search for more than one word, I never get the results back, as in the forum disappears, and instead of reloading with my results, all I get is a blank, white page. One word searches USUALLY work, 2 word about 50%, 3 word about 10%, and don't even think about more than three. I swear this started around the time Derek worked on the search last, but I have no hard proof.

Is anyone else having this problem? Is this perhaps a Firefox issue? As I type this I realize I should try searching in an Explorer window.....maybe I'll go try that to.

ETA: Nope, Explorer engine has the same problem.

[Sunray]

Something is screwy on your machine. Two word searches work just fine in My IE 6.0.2900. And with Firefox 5.0 and Netscape 9.

[average_shooter]

Having a hard time with it myself at the moment...

[Derek Zeanah]

What words are failing? Let's see if we can replicate it.

[Geneseo1911]

I'm on a different laptop today, and the problem is the same on this machine in both FF 5 and IE 8.

For example:
I searched for
"solder sight to barrel"; got blank page
"solder sight barrel"; blank
"solder sight"; I get results

I have had the same experience with other sets of search terms, but frankly I can't remember now exactly what it was I was looking for. Others I tried:

"Winchester 1300" returns results
"Winchester 1300 barrel" returns blank page

this is weird:
started with "browning", continued to add words up to "browning machine m2 .50 bolt"; never had a failure.

"springfield mil-spec grip safety" works

"sellier & bellot fouling" works

"winchester 1300 barrel" still won't

I can't make heads or tails of it. It seems to be better tonight than it has been, however.

ETA: I would suspect my connection, but my work computer does the same thing. Also, every time I have a failure, if I shorten my search to one or two words, it works, but then re-trying the original search gets me a blank page again.

I'll be super impressed if someone can figure this out; the worst problems to diagnose are the inconsistent ones.

[Mal H]

I don't know the cause, but I can verify the failure. I searched for "solder sight barrel" as you did in your first example and got a completely blank page in return. I'm using Firefox 3.5.1 on MS XP.

I tried several different Search Option combinations and consistently got the blank screen. So at least you know it's not you or your system.

[Derek Zeanah]

""solder sight barrel" failed for me too.

Something else to look into, I guess...

[Geneseo1911]

ha. interesting.

I'm just glad I'm not crazy.

[average_shooter]

In reference to my previous post;

I was looking for a specific thread or post I am pretty sure I saw here regarding authentic-looking home-made cartridge box labels. As my search was pretty specific I searched something to the effect of "home made vintage cartridge box labels" and got a blank page. By shortening my search terms, however, I ended up with dozens of pages of results which were completely irrelevant to what I was looking for. FWIW, the search returned many threads/posts containing only the word "box" or "cartridge" but I didn't find any with more of the search terms I was looking for.

[rbernie]

'1911 barrel fit', '1911 barrel', '1911 fit', '1911 pistol barrel' all return a blank page, using the default settings in Advanced Search.

[Erik M]

Im glad this is a known issue. For a moment I thought I had forgotten how to properly use the search function on a vbulliten forum.