How can I keep form fields filled in on a browser?
I have a form. I have to click tick boxes to select records to download.
I click next and the browser takes me to a download page... I download and save. Then I press continue to take me back to the first page where the tick boxes are ticked.
DAMN! The tick boxes are now NOT ticked :( Why????
In Chrome, when I go back, the tick boxes are all ticked.
OK if 5 tickboxes - no bother.
A problem if you have 100 tick boxes and you have to take out time to select and unselect 20% of tick boxes. This sucks. I dont user IE. Not sure about Opera. Wouldnt trust any other browser. It just seems obvious to me that the tick boxes should remain in the same state.
What can I do to fix?
Before posting this post... I read up and went through some options. None work.
HELP! I want to use Firefox more.
Thanks.
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Hello, form autofill will be coming as a built in feature with Firefox 58: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/58.0beta/releasenotes/
I don't think autofill will work for the types of pages that you described.
Autofill is for standardized web forms - like for completing online purchases using a credit card, where First Name, Last Name, Address 1, Address 2, City, State, ZipCode, Credit Card #, and the Expiration Date with standardized field names that are used universally.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Features/Form_Autofill#Feature_Availability It is under a staged-rollout, where 20% of users using en-US build and located in the US got it with Firefox 57 for Address Autofill; and more will get it in Firefox 58 along with Credit Card Autofill, and depending upon successful results in the early stages it may be in Firefox 59 for all users with both features. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/automatically-fill-your-address-forms#firefox:win7:fx58
Next time, instead of pressing 'Next,' go up to the address bar and press the Left Arrow to go back a page.
FredMcD said
Next time, instead of pressing 'Next,' go up to the address bar and press the Left Arrow to go back a page.
guys thanks for the replies. it's just so frustrating not having this feature. i think it's just common sense. :(
@FredMcD i dont think that works. i've tried a zillion and one things. i just thought i was missing something.
why does firefox need loooads and loooads of testing? anyway, i hope it does come in fuure releases.
i want to give up chrome - but this and just a few other usability reasons keep me with chrome.
I can understand the frustration, I used to use Lazarus, an add on that saved the form items, however I did find what FredMcD mentioned to be helpful.
The settings to be clear were these:
- http://mzl.la/1NT9rdB
- and https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/automatically-fill-your-address-forms
- and as the-edmiester mentioned, not all forms support auto-fill http://mzl.la/1Cchbmj
Modified by guigs
Firefox retains form data when you go "Back" to a form (you might need to right-click and jump further back than one click) and even sometimes when you reload a form using Ctrl+r. But there definitely are exceptions, including:
(A) Server instructed Firefox not to cache and not to store the page; and
(B) The page runs scripts when you leave (unload) the page