Hello Henry and Gaba, Thanks for the details about how to reproduce this. To follow up on this I've opened: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/42568 so far I've found that a fix was merged on gitlab for avoiding to override URL parameters if they are changed in the address bar directly. however I haven't yet found something that addresses the cross-tab pollination(pollution?) of search terms. I've added some details to gitlab's issue about the UX change to mention the problems we're facing with keeping different search results in different tabs but I don't know yet if someone will address it. On 2026-03-24 08:07, Henry Wilkes via tor-project wrote:
On 19/03/2026 20:22, Antoine Beaupré via tor-project wrote:
Today, we upgraded gitlab.torproject.org to 18.10!
Another bug I noticed is that gitlab searches via the url are broken.
E.g.:
1. Start searching some issues using the UI. Say search for "initial" in https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues 2. Then in another tab enter the url: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ applications/tor-browser/-/issues?search=new 3. This will redirect to: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ applications/tor-browser/-/issues?search=initial
Similarly:
1. Start searching some issues using the UI. Say search for "initial" in https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues 2. Edit the URL "search" query in place and load the new URL. 3. This will also redirect back to the old URL.
Similarly:
1. Start searching some issues using the UI. 2. In another tab search for something else in the UI. 3. Return to the first tab and refresh the page. 4. The refreshed page will use the search from the other tab.
So it seems gitlab just ignores the "search" part of the URL, and only stores one search term in some cache at any given time :/ Similarly if you edit the existing URL for the same tab.
Is this a known issue with the 18.10 update? I had a quick look through the gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab issue tracker but I didn't find anything obvious.