425101 - Software update interrupts completion of a form, values get lost

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 323041

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[lxpert]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080311 Firefox/2.0.0.13
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080311 Firefox/2.0.0.13

I just discovered a very annoying behaviour of Firefox. I was filling in a form on a website for more than half an hour, when Firefox suddenly closed everything, told me that it was updating and opened the website again. Unfortunately, all values got lost, the form was empty and half an hour of work gone. This behaviour is undesirable, it should either store the values or ask before updating!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Fill in some form.
2. Wait for software update.
3. See the values vanish.
Actual Results:  
The values vanished!

Expected Results:  
The values should still be there or the software update should ask the user if the new firefox should be opened!

Very, very annoying, half an hour of work lost!

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Already fixed on trunk :)