Closed Bug 1907758 Opened 4 months ago Closed 2 months ago

Form history should be separated from history to prevent the unintended deletion of form information

Categories

(Toolkit :: Data Sanitization, defect, P3)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Data Sanitization
Version:
Firefox 128
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1888466

People

(Reporter: p1nk_kaskus, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

(Keywords: dataloss, priv-triaged, regression)

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0

Steps to reproduce:

My History setting:
Use custom settings for history:
✔️ Remember browsing & download history
✔️ Remember search & form history
✔️ Clear history when Firefox closes >> Settings >> only History is checked, the others remained unchecked

Actual results:

After the newest update, all of my form history are gone.

Expected results:

Firefox used to still remember what I have typed in into any forms in most of the websites with the settings above. Now I have to uncheck 'Clear history when Firefox closes' if I want my browser to remember any form history.

Component: Untriaged → Data Sanitization
Keywords: dataloss, regression
OS: Unspecified → All
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
Hardware: Unspecified → All
Summary: Firefox doesn't save filled form info → Firefox deleted form fill information (clear on shutdown set to 'history' now includes form history)

We've merged form history and browsing history into the "history" category in the new dialog. We're currently evaluating whether we want to separate them again based on user feedback.
To work around this bug you can go to about:config and set privacy.sanitize.useOldClearHistoryDialog to true. Make sure to double check your clear on shutdown settings after that. Form history should now appear as a separate item again which you can leave unchecked to not clear form history on shutdown.

Severity: -- → S3
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Priority: -- → P3
See Also: → 1888466

Thank you, I've managed to find and turn on the option. If you're gathering user feedback then I'm in the side to separate these two just like it originally is. I was very shocked and thought I did something wrong with my FF when all of my form fills disappeared and had to re-type a lot of forms in a lot of websites, which was a hassle in itself.

Blocks: clear-data-revamp

We appreciate the feedback. As Paul said, we're considering improvements to the new clear data dialog. Slight reword of this bug will make it easier for us to refer to it.

Type: enhancement → defect
Summary: Firefox deleted form fill information (clear on shutdown set to 'history' now includes form history) → Form history should be separated from history to prevent the unintended deletion of form information

(In reply to Dan Mehic from comment #3)

We appreciate the feedback. As Paul said, we're considering improvements to the new clear data dialog. Slight reword of this bug will make it easier for us to refer to it.

Yes feel free to do so. Apologies, English is not my first language and I don't know how to best describe it.

No problem at all. Thank you for submitting the bug.

Keywords: priv-triaged

IMO the history should be split into four parts:

  • browser history
  • download history
  • search history
  • form history

If you think this is too complicated for the average user, then I suggest adding a basic and advanced view for the delete history and custom settings dialogs (like it is on Chrome if I not misremember).

Thanks for the feedback! We are actually working on (re)splitting form history in the options in Bug 1888466. Future work and redesigns regarding this issue may include adding an advanced section with further separation of options.

Closing this as a duplicate of Bug 1888466 to avoid confusion.

Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 2 months ago
Duplicate of bug: 1888466
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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