Forms should remember contents.

[ptbptb]

With Firefox most forms will 'remember' their contents in the unfortunate case that submission fails and you have to use the 'back' button to reload them. This is very useful if you have just filled in a big description or a lot of search options and then get an error message on clicking 'submit'. Unfortunately it does not seem to work with Nexus search / file upload forms. :unsure:

 

To compare, go to

http://www.google.com

enter 'test'

click 'Google search'

click 'back' icon in browser.

--> 'test' is still displayed in the text box.

 

With Nexus, go to

http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/advancedsearch.php

enter 'test' for the file name

click 'submit'

click 'back' icon in browser.

--> 'test' is _not_ displayed in the text box.

 

Having to retype everything because there is (allegedly) an invalid character in your file name for an upload is really annoying.

[JCSpencer]

I just made this suggestion to Ranokoa because of lost posts due to the server timing out, but what I do is copy my post before submitting it just in case something goes wrong. With Firefox and IE, I've always had the problem of lost form data on almost every forum I visit. As for the google example, as far I know, that's actually part of their application settings (remembering search terms in the search box), not Firefox. I just was doing an application online recently in Firefox, and I lost everything because of a server error, and when I clicked back all the data was gone. So pretty sure it's not a Firefox thing, but an application setting. I could be wrong. Either way, copying your post (and possibly pasting it into Notepad temporarily) is the best way I've discovered for protecting your time and effort spent on it. I've been doing this for years and years now just because I had one too many experiences of losing everything I had typed.