Closed Bug 293530 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Form data lost when changing encoding

Categories

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
Layout: Form Controls
Platform:
PowerPC
macOS
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 151359

People

(Reporter: chris+bugzilla, Unassigned)

References

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Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3 This is a dataloss bug, but a very mild one. When changing encodings, all entered form data is discarded. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Go to a page with a form, e.g. this page: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Core&format=guided 2. Start filling out the form 3. Change the encoding (e.g. from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1) Actual Results: Page is refreshed, form is reset Expected Results: Page is refreshed, form data is preserved -- OR -- Warning dialog appears saying that form data will be discarded
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 151359 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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