Can we fix our Trac that doesn't lose new ticket text

[Edward Z. Yang]

I've tried a few Firefox browser extensions which purport to "never
lose your form text", but I find they just don't save frequently enough
for my taste.  I would love to know an extension that does this
properly!

Edward

Excerpts from Ryan Yates's message of 2015-04-24 15:15:37 +0100:
> My very pessimistic rule of thumb is don't trust a form field unless the
> site actively saves a draft as you type.
> 
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Eric Crockett <ecrockett0 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > My Firefox also has this issue. So it seems the problem is the browser
> > itself. How can this be fixed on the server side?
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Edward Z. Yang <ezyang at mit.edu> wrote:
> >
> >> Whatever the case, it affects me, it affects SPJ, so we ought to fix it!
> >> (Change your browser is not a good answer :)
> >>
> >> Edward
> >>
> >> Excerpts from Eric Crockett's message of 2015-04-24 15:02:35 +0100:
> >> > On the contrary, I did precisely that just a few days ago (
> >> > https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10338), and to my surprise,
> >> trac
> >> > *did* save my new ticket text. Perhaps this is a browser-specific issue?
> >> > I'm using 64-bit Chrome 42.0.2311.90.
> >> >
> >> > On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Edward Z. Yang <ezyang at mit.edu> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > Steps to reproduce:
> >> > >
> >> > > 1. Click "New Ticket"
> >> > > 2. Type some text into the box
> >> > > 3. Press "Back" in your browser
> >> > > 4. Press "Forward" in your browser
> >> > >
> >> > > If you try this with an official Trac this doesn't happen, so either
> >> > > this was fixed in a new version, or we have a plugin installed which
> >> > > is causing this to happen.
> >> > >
> >> > > Current version of Trac is 1.0.5, we're currently running 1.0.1
> >> > >
> >> > > Thanks,
> >> > > Edward
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