Closed Bug 310918 Opened 19 years ago Closed 6 years ago

accidental use of form fill (autocomplete) causes loss of data

Categories

(Toolkit :: Autocomplete, defect)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Autocomplete
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INACTIVE

People

(Reporter: Brade, Unassigned)

Details

(Keywords: dataloss) 

I accidentally pressed the down arrow and picked something in the list (in an
input form field such as the URL field in bugzilla).  I pressed escape to get
rid of the list and not change the field.

Unfortunately pressing escape key cleared the field.
Unfortunately there was no way to get back to the old value that was in the field.

Bugs:
  I expected pressing the escape key to not change the edit field at all.
  I expected Undo to restore the previous value but it did not.
HandleEscape seems broken, not sure if this is a regression or not.
Component: Location Bar and Autocomplete → Autocomplete
OS: MacOS X → All
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
QA Contact: location.bar → nobody
Hardware: Macintosh → All
This seems to be worksforme in current trunk and branch build, but maybe I'm misunderstanding something?
QA Contact: nobody → autocomplete
Per policy at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bug_Triage/Projects/Bug_Handling/Bug_Husbandry#Inactive_Bugs. If this bug is not an enhancement request or a bug not present in a supported release of Firefox, then it may be reopened.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → INACTIVE
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