Over at squarefree.com, Jesse shares some good tips on locating bugs in Bugzilla. I don't use the quicksearch (though I probably should) but I do use many of the same technique as Jesse to be able to quickly locate bugs. Including duplicates is always a useful trick and one of the first things I explain to people new to Bugzilla. I also use the duplicates table for quick access to many high-profile bugs. Limiting searches to bugs with at least a couple of votes or limiting to bugs that have changed in the last few days also pushes higher-profile bugs to the surface. Jesse's collect buglinks bookmarklet is indispensible and I use it regularly to turn a query string into a comma-separated buglist for faster "sub-searches". Bugzilla is a monster but one that's not terribly difficult to tame.
The good news for those of you that have always felt Bugzilla was too difficult to search is that soon we'll have some new features and amazing performance improvements which will make a world of difference. As the new equipment gets set up over at the Mozilla Foundation's new digs, I'll give more updates.
