609375 - Fields do not update without bypassing browser cache

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 608701

(Bugzilla :: Creating/Changing Bugs, defect)

Description

[JK]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101103 Firefox/4.0b8pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b6) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b6

Fields, like severity or blocking2.0 do not update without bypassing browser cache (shift+reload). As a result, adding e.g. new comments reverts the changes someone else has made to these fields.

This can result in banning innocent people for messing with the fields.

See:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=601081#c4

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=607722#c12

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a bug
2. Have someone else change e.g. the severity
3. Reload without bypassing cache
Actual Results:  
-Fields do not update
-When you post a comment, the values of the fields revert

Expected Results:  
Fields should update without bypassing cache.

Comment 1

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

Why do you think people are getting banned over this?

Anyway, don't ever use reload/refresh alone. Either click the bug # at the top to reload the page, or you can do shift+reload.

Do you ever get a mid-air page? If so, what do you do?

Comment 2

[JK]

Banning for repeatedly messing with the fields seems quite likely.

Sometimes I get the mid-air page (but not after refreshing), and I press cancel.