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I've edited a couple of questions today on the main webmasters site for re-tagging, and the field is no longer providing the suggestions drop-down. As a quick test to make sure I wasn't expecting something that never happened, I tried over on the main SO site, and it does work over there.

This is edit-only, as far as I can tell. The suggestions drop-down does appear when authoring a new question.

EDIT
Didn't think to check the console previously, for some reason. Firefox 4 reports:

Error: bindTagFilterAutoComplete is not defined Source File: [question URL] Line: 2
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Can you try if it works now, please? – balpha♦ Jul 13 '11 at 11:58
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@balpha Working now. Thanks. – Su' Jul 13 '11 at 16:53
Great, thanks for testing. – balpha♦ Jul 13 '11 at 18:14

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I suspect a timing issue between the loading and execution of JavaScript files. We've seen issues like this previously; they are hard to reproduce reliably across machines.

In addition, this particular autocomplete issue would only appear for non-moderators between 2000 and 2999 reputation (you fall into these boundaries on Webmasters, as does another user on Super User who reported the same issue).

So while this is indeed , it's plausible; we'll have a look at trying to avoid these timing issues.

Update: We've made a change to how the JavaScript is loaded, and since both you and the other user report it's working now, I guess my suspicion was right.

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That's...highly specific. Making it precisely the kind of bug I tend to wind up running into. Now to go troll for some rep points so it stops grin – Su' Jul 12 '11 at 21:35
That's the spirit! – balpha♦ Jul 12 '11 at 21:37

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