309993 - airliners.net - Problem with Forms when pressing the back Button

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050913 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050913 Firefox/1.4

Using the back Button, makes Forms unuseable.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load the Page
2. Press the "Show me the Photos!" Button. A Script disables the Button and
changes the caption to "Searching, please wait..." 
3. Search result page will be loaded
4. Use the Back Button of Firefox 
5. The Form isn't reseted to the default values. So you can not perform a second
 search.

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

Uhm... this is pretty much the exact opposite of what bfcache is supposed to do.
We cache the form values that you had previously so you can go back and use
them. Same thing with data entered into <input>s, etc... Most likely a WONTFIX.

Comment 2

[jag (Peter Annema)]

The problem isn't the changes made in the form, it's that onclick the submit button disables itself and puts a "Searching..." text on it.

In IE, when you hit back, you'll find the button enabled with the old text.

In Mozilla with bfcache turned off, you get the old text, but the button is still disabled.

In Mozilla with bfcache turned on, you get the "Searching..." text and the button is disabled.

A work-around for now is to hold down shift and click the reload button (or press shift+ctrl+r as a shortcut), this will completely reset the page.

I'll attach a simple testcase shortly.

Comment 3

[jag (Peter Annema)]

Attachment: Form submit disable [1/2] The results page

Comment 4

[jag (Peter Annema)]

Attachment: Form submit disable [2/2] Submit button that disables itself

Comment 5

[jag (Peter Annema)]

-> Form Manager

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This is basically the same as bug 316838, just a different site.

Comment 7

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

INCOMPLETE due to lack of activity since the end of 2009.

If someone is willing to investigate the issues raised in this bug to determine whether they still exist, *and* work with the site in question to fix any existing issues, please feel free to re-open and assign to yourself.

Sorry for the bugspam; filter on "NO MORE PRE-2010 TE BUGS" to remove.