693536 - automatic form filling not done on home page

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Cameron McCormack (:heycam)]

If you use as your home page a page with a form whose contents you've told Firefox to remember, the form won't be filled in when the browser starts and the home page is loaded.  If you click Refresh, it will be filled in.

STR:

1. Visit http://people.mozilla.org/~cmccormack/form-fill.html.
2. Type something into the form field and submit the form.
3. In the infobar tell Firefox to remember the form contents.
4. Set this page as Firefox's home page.
5. Quit.
6. Relaunch, and note that the form isn't prefilled.
8. Tap the Refresh button, and note that the form is prefilled.

Comment 1

[Cameron McCormack (:heycam)]

Doesn't happen on desktop Firefox, btw.

Comment 2

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

This most likely happens because we delay init the form history component, waiting until the first page loads.

Form history accesses an SQLite DB and can cause a slight hang/non-responsiveness at startup. Bug 690903 should make this work. We will init the component before first page load, but not pay any costs unless the page has form fields.

Comment 3

[BMO Automation]

Closing all opened bug in a graveyard component