341810 - Wrong and old string input in input boxes when move to next or last page which contains same string input boxes

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Form Manager, defect)

Description

[wurstbrot]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4

When I try to search something on e.g. www.google.com and I enter e.g. the word mozilla and click the search button the results will list on this page (normal behavior). After I've refine the search string by adding e.g. the word firefox and pushing the search button and pressing the page back arrow after the new results were shown the input edit box still contains the search command "mozilla firefox" although I skipped to the last page where I just searched for mozilla.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open http://www.google.com
2.Enter following search string: mozilla
3.Push on search
4.adding another search string firefox (no we search for mozilla firefox)
5.push again on search
6.push page back arrow
Actual Results:  
we still see the "mozilla firefox" search string but just the search results for "mozilla" search string.


Expected Results:  
Instead you should see the last search string as well.

got this bug even in ther earliest version of mozilla firefox
Important:
This happens not just on google.com. It happens on the most pages with input boxes etc.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Yes, it should, because you are going back to the state of the page when you left it, which was with the results from "mozilla," and the "mozilla firefox" that you typed just before leaving the page.

Think of a different example: instead of one search box, you filled out 500 form inputs, with your name and address and every detail of your life to date, clicked the submit button, and were told "you gave an invalid answer for question 324, click Back and fix it," and when you clicked Back the page came up with the form in the state it was when you first loaded the page, with every input blank.

Comment 2

[wurstbrot]

Alright. If that's your plan to handle such things you are absolutely right and I can stop to consider it as a so called bug.
I am amazed how quick you guys are. Thank you for everything and sorry for my stupidity.

Comment 3

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** Bug 347064 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***