252729 - [meta] Resolve issues with forms and their elements losing their data when clicking back / forwards in history.

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect)

Description

[Jason Bassford]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040720
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040720

This is a tracking bug to resolve all issues involving forms and their elements
that lose data when going backwards and forwards in browser history.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Martin Arndt]

Hi,

same problem here - Mozilla fortgets about the typed data in forms when going
back and then forward, clicking on any link and then going back, entering
another URI in the addressbar or even reloading the page.

Any help would be great!

Comment 2

[Martin Arndt]

Confirmed on Windows 2000 SP4, Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US;
rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414

But restricted: I tried to change OS to Windows 2000, got the error and pressed
back - the comment field was NOT empty.

Comment 3

[Christian Reis]

Isn't this meta bug really a dupe of the meta bug 288462?

Comment 4

[Oliver Schoett]

> Isn't this meta bug really a dupe of the meta bug 288462?

No, it isn't.  Firefox can lose data going back to a form even without refetching it, for example on www.hrs.de: enter a random string in the Location field, then press "back" on the error page that appears.  Firefox loses your data (and does not refetch, I checked the proxy log), MS IE7 does not.

Comment 5

[Oliver Schoett]

> Firefox can lose data going back to a form even without
> refetching it, for example on www.hrs.de

Sorry, that is a feature, not a bug - the site uses autocomplete=off and hence loses the data in the location field.  IE7 does not lose data, however, and I wonder why this incompatibility was introduced.

Comment 7

[costinel]

I can confirm this when adding reviews on on https://addons.mozilla.org/