1398639 - Restarting nightly erronously restores some forms

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect, P5)

Description

[Paul Bone [:pbone]]

Attachment: duplicate-comment.png

When nightly restarts after updating some form fields are filled in when they don't need to be.  I think this is Firefox being helpful and not forgetting what it thinks may be an incorrect form entry, but it's one I submitted earliear, and before restart the form on this page was blank.  So far I've only noticed it with github comments.  In this specific example I already made this comment on this issue, but when nightly restarted it filled out the comment field as if I hadn't yet made this comment, but you can see it above in the same page and I can verify it by refreshing the page.

Comment 1

[Mike de Boer [:mikedeboer]]

I've seen reports about GitHub form restore behavior before and I'm guessing that they're probably being too smart and attempt some kind of form entry persistence themselves.
So at this point I'm not even sure whether this is a Firefox bug or GitHub's!

Once this starts happening for other sites as well (which I haven't seen/ heard reports about yet), I'll bump the priority here.

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The severity field for this bug is relatively low, S3. However, the bug has 18 votes.
:dao, could you consider increasing the bug severity?

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Comment 3

[BugBot (nomail) [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The last needinfo from me was triggered in error by recent activity on the bug. I'm clearing the needinfo since this is a very old bug and I don't know if it's still relevant.