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searching mozilla forum key words

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Can I search the mozilla forum for specific word inside the forum? for example searching for a key word inside a forum response.

Can I search the mozilla forum for specific word inside the forum? for example searching for a key word inside a forum response.

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When you use the search box at the upper right, there should be buttons above the hit list to limit your results to "Community Discussion only". Is that what you meant?

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When you use the search box at the upper right, there should be buttons above the hit list to limit your results to "Community Discussion only". Is that what you meant?

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There is also Advanced Search {web link}

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See also:

(EDIT: noticed that Fred posted this suggestion a few seconds earlier)

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I do not see any buttoms in the top right corner. Is there a specific menu?

See my screen shot

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Mace2 said

I do not see any buttoms in the top right corner. Is there a specific menu?

Oh, I see, the search box appears when you start scrolling down the page. It's not in the header when you first load the page.

There's also a huge search box on the home page of https://support.mozilla.org/

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I think I found what I am looking for.

Under "contributor tools" then "advance search" then I select the "discussion forum" tab and enter my search.

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Mace2 said

I think I found what I am looking for. Under "contributor tools" then "advance search" then I select the "discussion forum" tab and enter my search.

FredMcD said

There is also Advanced Search {web link}
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I am still having trouble with the search. As an example I was trying to serch for and find FF support forum that contains "www.Pluto.tv" but I keep getting the message "We couldn't find any results for www.Pluto.tv in English. Maybe one of these articles will be helpful? "

to perform the search I go to "contributor tools"-Advance search, then select forum dicussion tab and then enter the search "www.pluto.tv" in the search field.

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You can possibly use a keyword bookmark (sumo) and use that to search the forum.

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Mace2 said

to perform the search I go to "contributor tools"-Advance search, then select forum dicussion tab

There are three tabs:

If you want to search for support threads, use that second category, not the third one.

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Searching the support forum uses: &w=2&a=1 Searching the knowledge base uses: &w=1&a=1 Searching the discussion forum uses: &w=4&a=1&forum=1