User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050421 Firefox/1.0.4 (MOOX M2) Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050421 Firefox/1.0.4 (MOOX M2) The dialog warning users to resubmit postdata should include a "View Postdata" button that expands the window, allowing the user to see what data is being resubmitted, in a human-readable form. This is one of the few remaining esoteric dialogs, and it often crops up when users least expect it (when hitting the "back" or "reload" button). Sometimes even I don't know what postdata has been submitted, so it would be a great help to be able to examine it. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Fill out a form that uses postdata. Submit the data 2. Browse to another site. 3. Go back. Actual Results: The enigmatic "POSTDATA" dialog appears. Expected Results: The informative "POSTDATA" dialog appears.

(In reply to comment #0) > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050421 Firefox/1.0.4 (MOOX M2) > Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050421 Firefox/1.0.4 (MOOX M2) > > The dialog warning users to resubmit postdata should include a "View Postdata" > button that expands the window, allowing the user to see what data is being > resubmitted, in a human-readable form. This is one of the few remaining > esoteric dialogs, and it often crops up when users least expect it (when hitting > the "back" or "reload" button). Sometimes even I don't know what postdata has > been submitted, so it would be a great help to be able to examine it. > > Reproducible: Always > > Steps to Reproduce: > 1. Fill out a form that uses postdata. Submit the data > 2. Browse to another site. > 3. Go back. > > Actual Results: > The enigmatic "POSTDATA" dialog appears. > > Expected Results: > The informative "POSTDATA" dialog appears. Personally, I don't think there should be a POSTDATA dialog at all, because it is not user friendly: a lot of people will not even have a clue what POSTDATA is. Also, the message is just as annoying as a popup ad: it appears when you click 'Back' and go to a POSTDATA page, often multiple times. As choosing 'OK' from the POSTDATA dialog options goes back anyway, and 'Cancel' stays on the current page, it seems as useful as a dialog box asking you 'Are you sure you want to go back?'. If a user clicked 'Back' and went to a POSTDATA site, they would just be able to click 'Forward' to return to whatever site they were on, so the POSTDATA dialog seems unnecessary.

(In reply to comment #0) > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) > Gecko/20050421 Firefox/1.0.4 (MOOX M2) > Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) > Gecko/20050421 Firefox/1.0.4 (MOOX M2) > > The dialog warning users to resubmit postdata should include a "View Postdata" > button that expands the window, allowing the user to see what data is being > resubmitted, in a human-readable form. This is one of the few remaining > esoteric dialogs, and it often crops up when users least expect it (when > hitting > the "back" or "reload" button). Sometimes even I don't know what postdata has > been submitted, so it would be a great help to be able to examine it. > > Reproducible: Always > > Steps to Reproduce: > 1. Fill out a form that uses postdata. Submit the data > 2. Browse to another site. > 3. Go back. > > Actual Results: > The enigmatic "POSTDATA" dialog appears. > > Expected Results: > The informative "POSTDATA" dialog appears. > This should also be implemented into the "View Page Info" upon visiting a page for developer needs... Sometimes a developer needs to see if the correct data is being sent from a form for debugging purposes (without having to build into the site something to echo/print the data). Also HIGHLY related and should be implement with this change is: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=301063

In most cases the form is just going to have gobbledygook data, it doesn't really help the user decide if it's safe to repost, and this isn't the kind of decision for force off onto users anyway.