557321 - Firefox wants to resend data to certain pages when I use the back and forth buttons

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 160144

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[jangirke]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100214 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Firefox/3.5.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100214 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Firefox/3.5.8

This thing is around for quite some time and instead of just showing me the page as I left it, Firefox annoys me with asking that question and does not offer the right answer, which would be: „Show me the damn page, don't send any data. Use the damn cache.”

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Forget your skype password.
2.Use the forgot my password button.
3.Use the link to change your password.
4.Get redirected.
5.Use the back button.
Actual Results:  
Get angry, 'cause Firefox annoys you with that question and does not offer
the right answer.

Expected Results:  
Just shows the page that I left as I left it without sending any data because pages in cache don't need any interaction.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

The old data was expired from the cache, normally on request from the website itself (like a no-store header). Other browsers resend the data without asking your permission. This can result in errors like a credit-card purchase (!!).