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How can I get Firefox to not reload pages when I hit "back"?

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erealia
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I do CSS work within a website, and sometimes when I'm doing so, I accidentally click out of the text box and hit "back." This wasn't a problem before, because Firefox would keep everything how it was when I hit forward. BUT anymore, everything reloads, and it erases everything I had typed up, and makes me extremely irritated. HOW can I get it to not do this? I'm pretty sure Chrome doesn't do this, so if it means switching, I will, because this is really a huge burden.

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I'm typing things, accidentally hit back, hit forward, and everything is erased because the page reloads. I would like it to not do this, as it used to do.

I do CSS work within a website, and sometimes when I'm doing so, I accidentally click out of the text box and hit "back." This wasn't a problem before, because Firefox would keep everything how it was when I hit forward. BUT anymore, everything reloads, and it erases everything I had typed up, and makes me extremely irritated. HOW can I get it to not do this? I'm pretty sure Chrome doesn't do this, so if it means switching, I will, because this is really a huge burden. Re-summary. I'm typing things, accidentally hit back, hit forward, and everything is erased because the page reloads. I would like it to not do this, as it used to do.

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guigs
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Hi erealia, This sounds extremely annoying and it has happened to me as well. Make sure that the setting for Firefox to save form data is still on:

Second, as a precaution try Lazarus, a form remeberer addon.

Sorry for the frustration I hope that this add on does you wonders.

cor-el
cor-el
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This can happen if the page isn't in the disk cache.

Is the disk cache enabled and working if you check that on the about:cache page?

You can open about: pages via the location/address bar.