522544 - Form Data Lost After Browser Crash - Restore doesn't bring it back

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 477605

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Description

[Máirín Duffy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090803 Fedora/3.5.2-2.fc11 Firefox/3.5.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090803 Fedora/3.5.2-2.fc11 Firefox/3.5.2

I put a good hour or so into creating a page on a media wiki. A flash page on another tab in firefox brought the whole browser down. I brought firefox back up and restored session, and the mediawiki form i had been working on was restored, completely blank. 1 hour's worth of work lost.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Actual Results:  
The form wasn't restored. I was expecting it to restore my data.

Comment 1

[Paul O'Shannessy [:zpao] (not bugmail, email directly)]

Was the form on a https page? By default we don't save form data for those.

In about:config you can change the value for browser.sessionstore.privacy_level. The default value is 1.
// on which sites to save text data, POSTDATA and cookies
// 0 = everywhere, 1 = unencrypted sites, 2 = nowhere

Comment 2

[Máirín Duffy]

Yes it was. Why don't you save form data for them? 

The form isn't private because of the content in it. The form is private because of session authentication data I think.

Comment 3

[Paul O'Shannessy [:zpao] (not bugmail, email directly)]

I think the idea here is that we don't transmit the data in unencrypted, so we shouldn't store it on disk unencrypted (unless explicitly told to do so). See other bug & linked bugs from there for a better explanation and reasons for/against.