Using Advanced Search
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- Creator: AliceWyman
- Comment: edits to Intro
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- Reviewed by: AliceWyman
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Advanced Search is a feature to find content using complex filters and queries that aren't available by default when searching for help with Mozilla products.
Search Syntax
Advanced Search queries use the following syntax:
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+signifies AND operation -
|signifies OR operation -
-negates a single token -
"wraps a number of tokens to signify a phrase for searching -
*at the end of a term signifies a prefix query -
(and)signify precedence
Examples:
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crash- searches for responses with the word "crash" -
crash + -sync- searches for responses with the word "crash" excluding results with the word "sync" -
crash + sync- searches for responses with both "crash" and "sync" -
"norton antivirus" crash- searches for responses with the phrase "norton antivirus" and the word "crash"