310944 - Toggling back from the bookmark manager will cause gmail to reload and you will lose everything typed

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Yuan Qi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7

Although I only tested this bug on gmail, it might affect other AJAX
applications and normal web applications. However, the toggle works as expected
(no data loss) on simpler pages, such as the new post page on the Mozillazine
Forums.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Compose a new email in gmail
2. Toggle to the Bookmarks manager
3. Toggle back from the Bookmarks manager
4. The page refreshes and you lost everything you typed

Comment 1

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Not sure there's much we can do about this as really you're loading a page
(about:bookmarks) and then going "back" to Gmail. (Because Gmail uses JS for
everything, it clears it unlike normal forms, iirc.)

This is probably INVALID (or really, by design).

Comment 2

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

This happens even when going back to Gmail after visiting a normal page.  If
Gmail insists on reloading things, there's nothing we can do about it, even with
fastback.

Comment 3

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

it is kinda annoying tho i agree.

Comment 4

[Yuan Qi]

Actually, I think there might be a way to work around this problem. Why not put
the bookmarks manager in an independant pane that sits on top of the webpage and
covers it. Since the bookmarks manage is independant of the content pane, we can
avoid this kind of problems.

Comment 5

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

I think it's a valid complaint.

Comment 6

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Mass-reassign of bugs still assigned to pinkerton to nobody; filter on "NoMoPinkBugsInCamino".

Comment 7

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

There have been a ton of changes to Gmail since this was filed; it is still a problem?

Comment 8

[Stuart Morgan]

I don't think it matters; the fundamental issue here is in how the bookmark view in Camino works, not the example it happened to be filed against. The problem will exist on some number of sites unless we change things.