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Form History Control

An extension to Save, View and Manage text form data.

This plugin stores text from text-fields and editor fields as you type, so you never have to lose your work when disaster strikes. Recover your lost work after session timeouts, network failures, browser crashes, power failures and all other things that will destroy the hard work you just put into writing that important email, essay or blog post.

This extension can also be used as an easy form filler. It will restore text and editor fields as well as various input controls. On each submission of a webform, the state of controls like radio-buttons and check-boxes are saved. You can autofill textfields and various controls in a web form using either the most used or the last used formhistory data.

All text data that has been stored can easily be retrieved and managed. This extension also offers the possibility to export/import form history data allowing you to exchange data between multiple browser configurations. You can even import data from the old (pre webextension) version.

If you experience problems regarding form history not being saved, please check if you have cookies enabled.
This add-on uses indexeddb to store its information and by disabling cookies this issue (see bugzilla) may prevent data to be stored. So please check the Privacy and Security preferences of the browser and make sure that cookies are accepted or Form History Control will not be able to store your data.

This add-on now uses the new mandatory WebExtensions API which no longer offers access to Firefox's built-in formhistory database. To overcome this limitation this add-on will create and maintain its own private formhistory database which initially will be empty.
There are however two ways to get the formhistory data from the old version back into the new version:

  1. If you have an export file from the old version, you can simply import that file into the new version. The exportfile is compatible with the new version.
  2. If you have no importfile, I published a standalone Java application that can export the formhistory data from the old version. This formhistory-export application is on github along with instruction on how to use it.

Install
Files containing form history data can be exported and imported in XML format. Import files from older versions are still supported. The main control dialog, opens from right-click menu. This lists the input and edit fields that are saved as you type so you never have to loose your work when disaster strikes. Quick access to the form history by left clicking on the icon (simplified version of the main dialog) Right-click on the page or a text form-element opens the context-menu and gives access to various actions. Saved text and control-state can be copied back to restore lost work or quickly restore webforms. Form history text entries can be viewed, edited or added manually. Use one of the wysiwyg view options to inspect the content with markup When viewing details of a formhistory entry, right-click gives access to clipboard copy actions Choose from different color themes, this is the default theme. Choose from different color themes, this is the dark theme. Choose from different color themes, this is the blue theme. Use the Show fields option to discover all form fields displayed on the current page and see the details of each field. You can alter various preferences, including the date format and themes.