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An editor for the Numbas e-learning system.
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One has to be careful with "Restore previous session" in Firefox #553

Open ugoertz opened 3 years ago

ugoertz commented 3 years ago

I am not sure it is worth reporting this; it is clearly more a user problem than a Numbas editor issue, but maybe it will save others an unpleasant experience.

Doing some edits to a question, then closing Firefox, opening it again and selecting "Restore previous session" restores the question tab but (I think) does not reload a current version of the page from the server, and instead auto-saves the previous version of the question. The edits that had been made are then lost.

Probably there is not much that can be done about this on the side of Numbas, but maybe you have an idea where to mention it in the documentation.

As usual, but with this issue in particular, feel free to close as "not a bug" or "won't fix".

christianp commented 3 years ago

I'll leave this open, because the checkpoint feature isn't particularly useful at the moment and I've been meaning to have another look at it.