A bug has been reported where checking the “Search this topic” box blocks search functionality on other pages. elijah was able to reproduce the issue, describing a scenario where the search magnifying glass becomes unresponsive after navigating away from a topic where the “Search this topic” box was checked. Orajnam reported a similar issue, where the top right buttons (search, hamburger, and user icon) become unresponsive.
tgxworld identified the problem as the search context not being reset after navigating away from a route and began working on a fix. A pull request was submitted (tgxworld and later updated with additional fixes ([tgxworld](/t/-/56832/8 and tgxworld).
sam reported that the issue still persisted and provided a step-by-step example of the strange behavior. [tgxworld](/t/-/56832/8 and tgxworld eventually fixed the issue, with the fix now properly tested.
I found another bug in the process where we did not refresh the results when the search context has changed/become invalid. If you are searching within a topic and you navigate to the home page and open the search menu again, the search results would still be scoped to the topic that you navigated from.
@tgxworld can you sort this out so it behaves more sanely… I guess if we are not clearing the term we should at least properly reset the search results so it searches globally for legit