A tricky situation in malone bug 60995

[Scott Kitterman]

On Sunday 21 October 2007 04:03, Martin Olsson wrote:
> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> > It's the wrong way to fix it. You can lose data by clicking enter
> > while a link is focused too, should we disable the enter key? The
> > right solution has been mentioned multiple times in multiple places:
> > prompt "Are you sure you want to change page and lose what you typed?"
>
> Yes, exactly. Nobody is arguing *for* data loss, clearly data loss
> should be avoided (but using another, more intelligent method).
> I would also like to point you to the follow repro steps:
>
> 1. surf to cnn.com
> 2. surf to google.com
> 3. enter search query "hello"
> 4. press the BACK button in the browser
> 5. press the FORWARD button in the browser
>
> Voilá your search query is still there intact: no data loss! Maybe this
> was a big problem in previous versions of Firefox but right now, the
> data loss argument is running very short.

Not losing data in one test case is nowhere near the same thing as never 
losing data.  

Scott K