Adopting strays {more or less fixed}

Question

The field to put the name you are searching gives a very very long string of computer stuff if you click in it. I dunno 'bout no computer stuff. Cari

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That's not normal, you should get a list of names.

You might get help faster if you edit your question to add "tech" to the 'Surnames and tags' box, near the bottom.

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I posted a screenshot

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Its private, only a screenshot is visible to another user, but a tech can help you.

As a user, I can't add a tag to your question, but you should be able to do it to your own question.  i believe you use the edit link.

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So you don't think you're crazy, Laurie, I moved the screenshot to a dead person's profile. :) Now visible.

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Thanks Cari, I'm well past crazy, so no worries either way :)  

It looks like you got search working again, and that's the important thing

Answer 1

Where exactly are you putting this name in so you can search? Which page? Which box?

Are you on this page? where are you typing a name?

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Special:Adoptions

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I posted a screenshot.

Answer 2

Here it is

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Thanks for the screenshot.  Try as I might, I still cannot reproduce that great big line of code and error message (and there's a lot of "facebook" in it!)

You're on the right page.  What are you clicking?

Try it again today.  Maybe it was a temporary glitch.

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Just tried it again and got the long code. All I do is click in the box. That's all.

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I had an idea and turned off Chrome's autofill thingy. No weird string thing. That's easy enough except I use autofill a lot. Just have to remember to turn it off here. Wonder why it thinks that's a Facebook thing or Facebook has an app to automatically log you into places that I have turned on. Hmmm. Wonder if that's fouling things up. Just wondering. I'm a computer dolt.