242680 - Saved Form Information working sporadically

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Scott Brawner]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

I have the following set as me homepage:
http://archive.guitarplayer.com/giveaway/dmyam04only.shtml|http://archive.bassplayer.com/giveaway/wkoaonly.shtml|http://archive.guitarplayer.com/giveaway/breedlove04only.shtml|http://archive.guitarplayer.com/giveaway/crowdonly.shtml
These are contests that all entry on a daily basis. What I have noticed is that
even though I have enabled the "Save Form Information" option when I revisit the
pages to enter the contests again, sometime the stored form data is there and
sometimes it is not. I can click in the fields in the form and press the
down-arrow key and sometimes the stored information for those fields is
available, other times nothing happened. It seems to be somewhat random as to
when it does or does not work. I did notice that the emptying the cache and
restarting the browser seemed to help but that may have just been a coincidence,
as the problem is sporadic in nature.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Evan Prodromou]

*** Bug 252116 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[drc00l-mozilla]

I have exactly the same problem with saved forms. This feature stops working frequently in the middle of a session, and I need to restart FireFox to get it going again.

Comment 4

[David P James]

Mass edit: Changing QA to default QA Contact

Comment 5

[David P James]

Mass edit: Setting correct QA for location bar/autocomplete. My bad. I forgot I had once been Autocomplete QA too. Hmm, why can't I just set the QA of bugs to the default QA of the component in a mass edit rather than having to do it manually...?

Comment 6

[u63580]

Is this problem still about, at least in 1.5.0.7 and preferably in 2.0beta?  If not, suggest closing WFM.

Comment 7

[lijuan wang]

The URL provided by the reporter can't be displayed now.I use someother url for test and can not reproduce this bug.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a7pre) Gecko/20070702 Minefield/3.0a7pre
So,close it as WFM.