752607 - restore text from contenteditable boxes on facebook and elsewhere

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Description

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Session Restore fails for me on Facebook and some other sites and I suspect it's because Facebook doesn't use text areas and instead uses contenteditable on a div (I think). 

We should capture that and attempt to restore it. If we cannot restore it to the page properly, we should at least dump the text to a new tab.

Comment 1

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

I just took a quick look. Facebook is not using contenteditable and we are _saving_ data from FB pages. However the input elements on the restored page have different ids so we don't restore into them.

There's really nothing to do about that and I don't think opening a new tab with form data we couldn't restore is the right action. Perhaps we should talk to FB and encourage them to keep ids consistent.

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

OK. Glad to be wrong on them not using contenteditable. 

We need to do something here.  Facebook is up to 900M users which means it's a good bet that a majority of Firefox users are also FB users and not restoring their text on a restart or a crash is a major flaw. 

I'll talk with the UX folks and open a new bug for what to do when a restore happens with no matching input elements.