1283837 - Form text is not restored when it's hidden at load

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect, P3)

Description

[doaxan]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0
Build ID: 20160701004039

Steps to reproduce:

1) Open https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi#h=bugForm%7CFirefox
2) Write something in forms
3) Close tab
4) Undo Close Tab
or
1) Change about:preferences#general to "When Firefox starts: Show my windows and tabs from last time"
2) Open https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi#h=bugForm%7CFirefox
3) Write something in forms
4) Close Firefox
5) Open Firefox


Actual results:

The text in the forms is not saved and you have to type all over again.


Expected results:

In chromium text is saved and it is very convenient.

Comment 1

[Tooru Fujisawa [:arai]]

Basically form text is saved/restored, but the bugzilla's guided form [1] is hidden by default, and displayed by JavaScript.
and the form text seems not be restored when the form is hidden at the load timing.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?format=guided#h=bugForm%7CFirefox

Comment 2

[Graham Perrin]

Please: with Firefox 56.0.1, is this still an issue? 

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For what it's worth: I have probably never found this issue. (It's difficult for me to be certain, because I frequently see something like the opposite of this issue – AFAICT, form texts restored long after those texts have been submitted – maybe bug 706970.)