Reviews for Form History Control
Form History Control by Stephan Mahieu
89 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Kr, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by poorna, 3 years agoNot able to autofill dates in latest mozilla firefox on windows 7. date format mm/dd/yyyy. I have lot of dates to fill for my testing purpose.
Developer response
posted 2 years agoThis issue is fixed in recently published version 2.5.6.1 so please give this a try. If you still experience problems please consider submitting a bug-report/feature-request through the proper channels and provide me with the details that help me to address this problem. - Rated 5 out of 5by bsdaddict, 3 years agoAmazing addon, absolutely essential imho. Thank you so much!
(I went to the linked homepage because I wanted tip you for this, but didn't see a way. You should add one, unless you're opposed to receiving tips, that is...)Developer response
posted 3 years agoLeaving a tip is well hidden :-)
https://stephanmahieu.github.io/fhc-home/about/#show-your-appreciation - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15928343, 3 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by humpty, 3 years agoDoes not work for mobile. Can see what's saved but cannot paste.
- Rated 5 out of 5by ksclarke, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15972315, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ML, 3 years agoThanks 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{} - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15918521, 3 years ago(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. - Rated 3 out of 5by Matt GD, 4 years agoVery good and useful add-on but it doesn't always store entries
Developer response
posted 4 years 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).
Recent update 2.5.6.1 contains a fix that improves storing entries for many popular javascript frameworks like the cke editor. This release massively increases the number of sites where it is able to store/restore your work. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12166271, 4 years agoThis is a wonderful extension. The developer is to be commended.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15572740, 4 years agoWondering how to delete, not import, old database from pre Jan 2020 version. Thanks!
Developer response
posted 4 years 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.
I do provide an export/import utility, see: https://github.com/stephanmahieu/formhistory-export - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 12334292, 4 years agoIt 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
Developer response
posted 2 years agoThere is a clean-up feature: if you open the details of an entry you can either choose to copy all (including the HTML-junk) or just copy only the bare text. - Rated 1 out of 5by kingdomsaint, 4 years agoLousy form recovery. Can't automatically fill fields nor copy text from their menu.
Developer response
posted 4 years agoHaving trouble? Consulted the manual? Please contact me or file a bug report if you are having issues getting this add-on to work. - Rated 5 out of 5by JohnnyFive, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by X3phiroth, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14683741, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14994388, 4 years agoLive-Saver: Saves much livetime (& anger)! Easy, functional & reliable. Support (=> financial contribution) strongly recommended!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 6466650, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox ユーザー 13760922, 4 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14713662, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14704925, 5 years agoHello 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 5 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 - Rated 5 out of 5by hermann-san, 5 years ago