bugs.php.net like prompts

[Myk Melez]

Jack Tanner wrote:

> Zbigniew Braniecki wrote:
>
>> So i decided to fill a bug. After filling it, i clicked "submit bug", 
>> but instead of sending it, bugs.php.net displayed a list of possible 
>> matching problems with description,status and question if i'm sure 
>> it's not any of following. If not, i can click "submit" once more, to 
>> really submit it into database. Of course the bug was there and I did 
>> not send one more dupe.
>
>
> This is an extremely good idea.
>
> One approach is to use plain text information retrieval techniques, 
> e.g., 
> http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Information_Retrieval/Fulltext/?tc=1. 
>

An implementation of this is being developed over in bug 145588:

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145588

-myk