Strange Forum Behavior. A "1" pops up in the search bar for no reason throwing off the usual feed.

FR ^ | 3.13.24 | Self

[Boomer]

Anyone else having this issue?

[Be Free]

Mine does the exact same thing, starting within the last week. I am using the Firefox browser. The shortcut I use to come to FR is the same as always, https://www.freerepublic.com/tag/articles:latest/. I see the field initially populate with the *, then it switches to the 1, just like yours.

[VastRWCon]

Maybe the programmer is debugging code and using that as confirmation of code execution.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

I only regret that I have but one * for my country.

[Poser]

Here's what I get on my Windows 11 Brave browser

[Boomer]

I guess it’s the forum software that has an issue and not the end user. Nothing can be done on our end to stop it.

It’s more of a nuisance than anything. One click on the word “Forum” at the top takes me to where I wanted to go from the start. Hopefully the webmaster will find something they did wrong in the site programming. Maybe just an overlooked or accidental change.

[Boomer]

There’s very little in the settings and nothing that would change this site behavior.

[Boomer]

Yes, that’s exactly what pops up on mine. Never did it before this past few days.

[Boomer]

I think I found the issue in the page source.

form id=”site_search” method=”post” action=”/perl/go-button”>
input type=”text” name=”s” size=”20” value=”1” class=”text” onfocus=”this.select(); site_search_focus(1);” onblur=”site_search_focus(0)” />
input type=”submit” value=”Search” class=”submit” />
div id=”site_search_extended”>
strong>Search:</strong>
select name=”type” onfocus=”site_search_focus(1);” onblur=”site_search_focus(0)” >
option value=”keywords”>Keywords</option>
option value=”users”>Users</option>
option value=”titles”>Titles</option>
option value=”yahoo”>Yahoo</option>

[Wingy]

Yep. The same thing is happening to me. Now it gives me my screen name (Wingy) but it reverts back to (1). Tried to delete but it just comes back.

[Boomer]

I think it has something to do with the Brave and Firefox browser software (maybe others). It doesn’t do it in Google Chrome for some reason.

[gitmo]

It has been happening for months. Very aggravating.

[Fledermaus]

It’s an old FR meme

[al baby]

gotcha it was me thanks for playing

[gitmo]

It has been happening for almost a year.

[gitmo]

It has been happening for over a year.

And YES, I am logged on. :-)

[Boomer]

I wonder why the programmer hasn’t been able to fix it. It really is annoying.