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

Alexey Vagarenko vagarenko at gmail.com
Fri Apr 24 15:16:29 UTC 2015


I don't know about an extension, but there is .js library
https://github.com/simsalabim/sisyphus

2015-04-24 20:20 GMT+06:00 Edward Z. Yang <ezyang at mit.edu>:
> 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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