People often wonder how to make searches in Bugzilla faster on large installations. Two things will give you the most bang for the buck:
- Specify you only want open bugs (if that’s true)
- Specify a product (and, if you know it, a component) to search
Do those two things, and your searches will be much faster.
Coincidentally enough, Bugzilla’s “Simple Search” (BMO version) allows you to specify precisely those two things.
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