166228 - Back button clears form fields

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 163714

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect)

Description

[unglorious]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020827
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020827

This can get quite aggravating...
Use of BACK button after submiting a form works the first time--that is, the
browser redisplays the form page with the text fields containing the text they
did when the form was submitted--but submit the form a 2nd time and go back and
all the entered text is gone from the text fields.

I found this reproducable on google then again just now on this very page
(http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Load http://www.google.com/advanced_search
2.Enter something in search field.
3.Submit.
4.Press BACK.
5.Observe that what you entered in #2 is present.
6.Enter something else in search field.
7.Submit.
8.Press BACK.
9.Observe that what you entered in #6 is gone.
10.File bug on mozilla.
11.Die waiting for something to happen.
12.GOTO #1.
Actual Results:  
Cursed free software and everything it stands for.

Expected Results:  
Not cleared form fields.

Javascript is disabled.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Yep.  'tis broken (2002-08-30 morning trunk build).

Comment 2

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 163714 ***