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The search fields shouldn't search just for open bugs. There is notice that you can check if your issue was already reported or not there. Searching in closed issues could help with verification/reopening old issues so it's perhaps right that the form is searching also in closed bugs. Anyway, thanks for suggestion. BTW if you would like to search just for open bugs you can do it over general search form: http://netbeans.org/bugzilla/query.cgi?format=advanced .