[RESOLVED] Back button does not save post content

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barbaz
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[RESOLVED] Back button does not save post content

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For the past few months when I've had posts caught by the spam filter or accidentally cancelled by me, using the "Back" button doesn't save what I had previously written, but instead erases everything. I don't think anything significant changed on my end when that issue started (but I could be wrong), and a small POST form testpage on my local server does save the entered text if I use the "Back" button.
Please fix, thanks.
Last edited by barbaz on Thu Oct 23, 2014 12:28 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Back button does not save post content

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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/33.0
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Re: Back button does not save post content

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Thank you Giorgio for the explanation.
*Always* check the changelogs BEFORE updating that important software!
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> It's the normal behavior for HTTPS pages

It's the normal behavior for HTTPS pages - on this board it seems, but not on "all" HTTPS pages (as I recall).

Pretty sure that it was not happening elsewhere (the "where" escapes me at the moment) HTTPS? I'll keep an eye out.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110420 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 Pinball NoScript FlashGot AdblockPlus
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Re: [RESOLVED] Back button does not save post content

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If anyone else is having this problem, I found that Form History Control (with a few minor modifications to deal with oddities in my browser setup) seems to work well.
*Always* check the changelogs BEFORE updating that important software!
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