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morat
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Service Outages

Post by morat »

Is there an alternative to the mxr.mozilla.org server?

Service Outages, Repairs in Progress
http://mxr.mozilla.org/
http://hardhat.cdn.mozilla.net/en-US/outages.html
Noitidart
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Re: Service Outages

Post by Noitidart »

Yes use dxr.mozilla.org and you can switch the tree. Mxr offers release, beta, aurora and nightly. The same can be seen on dxr via switch tree. But on dxr, nightly is known as "mozilla-central".

DXR is the way to go. MXR is marked for deprecation I heard a year ago. Seems like it hasn't gone anywhere thogh. DXR search is soooo much more useful. The regex search actually works on DXR, no glimpse crap.

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morat
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Re: Service Outages

Post by morat »

Thanks. I heard of LXR, but not DXR.

http://lxr.mozilla.org/
http://dxr.mozilla.org/

The DXR fork only has "comm-central" for Thunderbird.
lithopsian
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Re: Service Outages

Post by lithopsian »

I find dxr annoying. The search features appear to have been written to suit the needs of the database index rather than the needs of me. mxr is a much more rounded product, but unfortunately for various reasons is essentially abandoned.

Everything Notidart just described as benefits of dxr are also available on mxr. The real benefit to dxr is that it works :) Simple searches are fast, whereas mxr has now become desperately slow (I suspect cache starvation through lower use and possibly resources being downgraded). Unfortunately, more complex searches and symbol cross-linking are missing on mxr. More features are apparently being added all the time (look under operators for many search options), but the contention that it is a fully-sledged replacement for dxr didn't really stack up when I tried to switch to it a few months ago. I noticed recently some sort of special mouse pointer on symbols in dxr, but can't seem to fathom any actual functionality to go with it. Maybe coming soon to a Mozilla search near you ...
Noitidart
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Re: Service Outages

Post by Noitidart »

lithopsian wrote:Maybe coming soon to a Mozilla search near you ...
Hahaha :lol:
nohamelin
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Re: Service Outages

Post by nohamelin »

MXR isn't coming back:
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mozil ... discussion

Check the info. Missing repos will be added.

DXR seems stiil a mix of useful and annoying things. It is really pissing me off the impossibility to select a word in code via double click ](*,) I need fill some bug reports when I have time.
lithopsian
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Re: Service Outages

Post by lithopsian »

Shame about mxr. Also unfortunate that dxr is now broken on old versions of Firefox and some other browsers due to getting cute with the let keyword.

dxr now seems to have a context menu on symbols, indicated by the fancy mouse pointer, selected by a left click instead of a right click. Again, cute but annoying.
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