Retrieving old comment text from quick reply

[fu]

Has anyone ever managed to retrieve old comment text from a quick reply -- for example, if you accidentally closed your browser window, and then reopened it again?

I'm currently looking at it, and I see code that says it should be retrieving the saved form values, but I've never had it work, and I'm trying to figure out if it's just my browser / setup, or if it just plain doesn't work.

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[denise]

Backbuttoning after navigating away always produces the saved old comment text. Closing the tab is irregular: if I open a new identical tab while still on the existing tab, it doesn't save; if I visit the closed entry by directly typing in the URL it doesn't save; if I hit the same link I hit to open the entry in a new tab, also in a new tab, it only coughs up the saved text occasionally. I haven't been able to establish what the pattern is.

[fu]

Ahhah the funny thing is that the behavior is almost opposite in Firefox. I'm assuming that you're describing how it works in Safari.

Also, we have code that supposedly makes it work consistently across browsers, but whatever it is, I can't seem to make it have any effect (that is, browser behavior is the same whether the code is in or not)

[denise]

AH, JAVASCRIPT