293530 - Form data lost when changing encoding

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 151359

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[Chris Dolan]

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

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 151359 ***