
We keep getting a message in our web app that says "To display this page, Firefox must send information..." Why does FF do this?
We keep getting a message in our web app that says "To display this page, Firefox must send information..." Why does FF do this?
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Are you really using Firefox 3.6? The current version is 3.6.14. If you are using the old version, you should consider updating to avoid the many security issues corrected since the release of version 3.6
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox36.html
- https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Updating+Firefox?bl=n&s=update%20automatically
Is this the full text of the message?
- To display this page, Firefox must send information that will repeat any action (such as a search or order confirmation) that was performed earlier.......
Answer per cor-el in http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/781372?s=resend+&as=s :
You get an alert about resending POST data if you go back to a page or refresh a page that was previously requested from the server by submitting form data via a (hidden) POST form.
Firefox can only make sure to get the same page by resending that POST form.
Firefox doesn't know what that form data means, so Firefox asks for confirmation before resending that form data as such an action can cause you to repeat an action and buy another item or post a message another time.
A way to prevent that pop-up is not to use the Back button, but to open links from a page that was requested from a server by sending a POST form in a new tab (window) with a middle-click or a Ctrl + left-click.
Then you can close that tab or window to go back.