296649 - history's "back" function clears textarea fields when "back" from XUL error pages

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[videoj]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050531 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050531 Firefox/1.0+

in offline mode after filling textarea field with some text if you click any not
cached link you get to xul error page, then if you hit "back" button, it goes
back one page but all the textarea entries are dissapeared, but should be restored.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. enable xul error pages
2. enable offline mode
3. fill in textareas on any page
4. click any non-cached link. you get the error page now.
5. press "back"
Actual Results:  
it goes back to textarea page but all the textareas are empty now.

Expected Results:  
textareas should be filled in with the info you typed before

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Attachment: testcase

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050604
Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005060401

Confirmed

repro:
1. set browser.xul.error_pages.enabled true
2. open testcase
3. type some words in the textarea
4. click on the link
5. press the backbutton

the textarea is now cleared

bfcache on/off make no difference

Comment 2

[Chris Hellberg]

This is really frustrating. the number of times I've lost stuff because (and yes
it's my fault that I've pressed the back button inadertantly) of the text fields
clearing. The reason is because the back button on this bogus laptop is really
near the slash, arrow and shift keys so easy to accidentally press.

It happens on pretty much any page though - doesn't seem to be related to any
XUL business - happens with any text box that I've been entering text in to.

Comment 3

[Ben Basson]

Can anyone still reproduce this? The testcase WFM with bfcache on or off.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050727
Firefox/1.0+

Comment 4

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050727
Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005072711

Same here Ben, resolving WFM

Comment 5

[Greg K.]

Verified WFM using Win FF 1.5.