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So they applied the wrong fix, to a problem that had been solved a decade ago. The problem: Moving away from a form can result in data loss. Their solution: M
by Mithaldu 10y ago
So they applied the wrong fix, to a problem that had been solved a decade ago.
The problem: Moving away from a form can result in data loss.
Their solution: Make it harder to move away?
The actual solution implemented more than a decade ago: Cache history completely and make it easy to move forward and backward in a tab's history while maintaining form contents.
- pfg 10y agoThe problem with that solution is, at least in my experience, that it doesn't really work reliably for most "rich" web apps , which are more and more common. (I understand that this is a controversial topic in its own light.) I can understand where they're coming from, and I'd be fine with a browser extension. Hopefully the one a Chrome developer is working on[1] will be available before this Chrome release hits stable. [1]: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=608016#c22 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=608016...
- Mithaldu 10y agoSadly implementing it as an extension is a security issue, as mentioned elsewhere plenty.
- pfg 10y agoI seem to have read this as "that extension won't be a content script (i.e. require access to all websites, like the existing extension)" initially, but on second reading, that might not be the case (and might, in fact, not be possible at all with the current APIs). Not too happy about having to add that kind of extension unless it's released by some trusted publisher ...