Reviews for Form History Control
Form History Control by Stephan Mahieu
Review by Artem S. Tashkinov
Rated 5 out of 5
by Artem S. Tashkinov, 6 years agoThis must be built-in in Firefox (and other web browsers as well), it's so great and indispensable.
If you're in for alternatives, there's also https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/textarea-cache/
If you're in for alternatives, there's also https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/textarea-cache/
Developer response
posted 6 years agoHi, thanks for the review.
Regarding the issues you mentioned:
1) This is actually a bug in Firefox affecting Linux users, see Bugzilla issue 1416505 (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1416505)
2) Saving data is currently performed every 5 seconds. Doing it more often has a negative impact on overall performance because it is not the keystrokes that are saved but the entire text you are editing. So in a worst case scenario you loose at most 5 seconds worth of typing.
Regarding the issues you mentioned:
1) This is actually a bug in Firefox affecting Linux users, see Bugzilla issue 1416505 (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1416505)
2) Saving data is currently performed every 5 seconds. Doing it more often has a negative impact on overall performance because it is not the keystrokes that are saved but the entire text you are editing. So in a worst case scenario you loose at most 5 seconds worth of typing.