Reviews for Form History Control
Form History Control by Stephan Mahieu
104 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12166271, 5 years agoThis is a wonderful extension. The developer is to be commended.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15572740, 6 years agoWondering how to delete, not import, old database from pre Jan 2020 version. Thanks!
Developer response
posted 6 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, 6 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 4 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, 6 years agoLousy form recovery. Can't automatically fill fields nor copy text from their menu.
Developer response
posted 6 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, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by X3phiroth, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14683741, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14994388, 6 years agoLive-Saver: Saves much livetime (& anger)! Easy, functional & reliable. Support (=> financial contribution) strongly recommended!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 6466650, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox ユーザー 13760922, 6 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14713662, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14704925, 6 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 6 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, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12564382, 6 years agoedit: I've been using this addon for at least 6 years. Should be built in to firefox!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 6509382, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by SamboNZ, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14535620, 7 years agoThis app is amazing! What a lifesaver when you lose the page you were working on...You can find past form entries and not have to type them again! Very impressed!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox Quantum Dev, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by lil_king420, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Daniel Saner, 7 years agoAn excellent add-on, reliable and with a lot of options and features, just how I like it. It's one of those extensions that, over time, you forget you have installed, but when its time for it to do its job, you'll be so glad you have it there. Or get very frustrated that you forgot to install it on your new system =)
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 11233054, 7 years agoBuenísima extensión, te permite recuperar todo lo que has escrito en Firefox. FF 62.0.3 (64-bit)
- Rated 5 out of 5by Artem S. Tashkinov, 7 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/Developer response
posted 7 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.