Reviews for Form History Control
Form History Control by Stephan Mahieu
Rated 4.6 out of 5
4.6 Stars out of 5
Rated 5 out of 5
156 reviews
- by humpty, 5 months agoRated 2 out of 5Does not work for mobile. Can see what's saved but cannot paste.
- by ksclarke, 5 months agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 15972315, 6 months agoRated 5 out of 5
- by ML, 7 months agoRated 5 out of 5Thanks a bunch! It's been a life saver at least 6 times for me now.
One request though: Please make it so you can select text again in the 'Form field' window (the window with View: HTML, Markdown, Wiki, Text). I used to be able to do this many versions ago (I guess 6 months ago?), and it really helped to partially grab stuff. There's another specific case where copying the HTML from the Markdown notation actually works better than the default way of 'Restoring Editor fields' (via Context menu) for one particular site I use with a WYSIWYG editor for Invision forum software.
It's entryview.css 'user-select: none;' on body{} - by Firefox user 12603536, 7 months agoRated 3 out of 5Please allow to remove from URL bar and from everywhere!
I just want to store my forms and SOMETIMES retrieve text, not adding tons of icons to my browser. - by Firefox user 15918521, 9 months agoRated 5 out of 5(X) Free & Open Source
(X) Functional, tweakable
My only warning is that it can save some very personal data, and AFAIK it is not stored encrypted, so be cautious, especially when websites take credit card details or passwords in plaintext without correctly telling the browser to not store these values.
The default clear time is some 90 days which seems far to long if you forget to clear such sensitive data. I would recommend reducing it down to your longest browsing session (time until you close all your tabs and start again), which for me is a few days. - by Matt GD, a year agoRated 3 out of 5Very good and useful add-on but it doesn't always store entries
Developer response
posted 10 months agoSome websites use advanced techniques and frameworks involving javascript that make it virtually impossible to capture user input in a generic way. On request I can add workarounds for popular websites/frameworks, please submit an issue and let me know for which website(s) capturing entries does not work (see built-in Help, Manual, Known Issues). - by Firefox user 12166271, a year agoRated 5 out of 5This is a wonderful extension. The developer is to be commended.
- by Firefox user 15572740, a year agoRated 5 out of 5Wondering how to delete, not import, old database from pre Jan 2020 version. Thanks!
Developer response
posted a year agoOlder (pre WebExtensions) versions of Form History Control stored extra information in the cleanup.sqlite file. This file is located in the root of your profile folder, you can simply delete this file.
For an explanation on where to find the profile folder see: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-firefox-stores-user-data - by Firefox user 12334292, a year agoRated 4 out of 5It works for sure, but it saves an excessive HTML junk so when I try to restore FB post, for example, it suffers to get it right. There should definitely be a clean-up feature
- by TAIFUN, a year agoRated 5 out of 5Великолепный плагин. Наконец-то появилась достойная альтернатива аддону Lazarus Form Recovery который перестал работать ещё на 5.x версиях Firefox. Очень не хватало такого аддона. Вы знаете, он даже лучше чем Lazarus Form Recovery. Огромная благодарность автору!
- by kingdomsaint, a year agoRated 1 out of 5Lousy form recovery. Can't automatically fill fields nor copy text from their menu.
Developer response
posted a year agoHaving trouble? Consulted the manual? Please contact me or file a bug report if you are having issues getting this add-on to work. - by JohnnyFive, a year agoRated 5 out of 5
- by X3phiroth, 2 years agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 14683741, 2 years agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 14994388, 2 years agoRated 5 out of 5Live-Saver: Saves much livetime (& anger)! Easy, functional & reliable. Support (=> financial contribution) strongly recommended!
- by Firefox user 6466650, 2 years agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 14790351, 2 years agoRated 3 out of 5I'm concerned that there is no universal way to prevent this add-on from locally saving sensitive information like social security numbers, phone numbers, etc.. Yes, these sensitive fields can be manually blacklisted for any particular site, but that requires knowing the precise field name; not impossible, but cumbersome to the point of not being helpful.
My thought is that this add-on would be more valuable for some people if it could be limited to fields where the entered test is longer than a specified number of characters. So, a user could say, "Save any field in which I type over 300 characters".
That would side-step local saving of most sensitive data, and focus on saving long text fields that take time to compose.
Your thoughts?
Jay
UPDATE:
Any progress on adding this type of option? Thanks!Developer response
posted 2 years agoSome people dislike the fact that all large fields are saved, other people dislike the fact that all short fields are saved and most people just want everything saved.
So I like your suggestion, I will add the option to choose what should be saved in the next upcoming release.
Thank you for the feedback.
Update 23 jan 2020: Option became available in version 2.4.0.0 - by Firefox ユーザー 13760922, 2 years agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 14713662, 2 years agoRated 1 out of 5
- by Firefox user 14704925, 2 years agoRated 5 out of 5Hello Stephan and thank you for this great plugin!
I only have one question. If i understand correctly
the captured data are not stored in formhistory.sqlite
file. Can you please tell me where this data is stored ?
Thanks againDeveloper response
posted 2 years agoHi
sqlite is no longer available for add-ons, HTML5 client side storage is commonly used instead. This is implemented in Firefox using IndexedDB.
See for instance here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/IndexedDB_API/Basic_Concepts_Behind_IndexedDB - by hermann-san, 2 years agoRated 5 out of 5