How to disable form value persistence on page reload for Firefox

Question

When I type some data in to a form input type="text" field, and then refresh the page in Firefox the values are remembered and the default values are not restored. This is not what I want to have happen; Google Chrome does reload the default values and wipes whatever I typed; So how do I disable this?

Answer 1

add autocomplete="off" in the form, or the text field

Answer 2

Go:

1. Type about:config into the URL bar (continue past the safety statement that may pop up if you haven't yet disabled it)

2. In the filter search box at the top of the page, type browser.startup.page

3. Set the first value (with the name browser.startup.page, not anything longer) to "3"

Hope this helps

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See here for a description of browser.startup.page

See here for the source of the fix (did it myself a while ago)

Finally, see here and here for two other "Firefox config hacks"