Restoring a session reverts to stale (or inconsistent) version of forms
Categories
(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect, P3)
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(Reporter: michael, Unassigned)
References
(Blocks 1 open bug)
Details
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:66.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/66.0
Steps to reproduce:
- Ensure Firefox is configured to restore tabs from the previous session.
- Open an existing issue on Gitlab or Github in a new tab. (Other web sites might be suffering from similar issues, these are the two where I frequently come across this behavior.)
- Write a comment on the issue and submit.
- Ensure your comment has been added to the issue.
- Close Firefox.
- Restart Firefox.
- Examine the tab.
Optionally, after 3, switch to a different tab, and after 5, switch back to it (not sure if this is necessary).
Actual results:
My comment appears in the web form but not in the comment history of the issue itself. (Or it appears in both.)
Expected results:
Tab is restored as it was last viewed: comment appears in history, web form is blank.
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Comment 1•5 years ago
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I’ve been seeing this for quite a while with many different Firefox versions (so it is not a new bug), currently on 66.0.2 (64-bit) on Ubuntu 18.04.
Possibly related to #1270966 and/or #1316943.
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Updated•5 years ago
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Comment 2•5 years ago
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At this point - and with the information you provided - I can't yet tell if this is a bug specific to GitHub and/ or GitLab or in Firefox. I'm afraid I need more information, most importantly solid steps to reproduce (STR).
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Comment 3•5 years ago
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Since the code bases of these two services are not genetically related (at the most they might share some third-party components, or they might not), I would assume this to be a generic issue—at the very least with websites behaving in a certain way.
What other information would you need? Or how could I attempt to reproduce this in a manner that will enable you to work with it?
Alternatively, would you be able to set up a “playground” project on one of these two sites, try to reproduce the behavior and do further analysis from there?
This happens because a) the page isn't reloaded when a comment is submitted, and b) we load a cached version of the page when restoring. See bug 706970 for more discussion.
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