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Anyone else getting the FA glitch where text vanishes?
13 years ago
For a while I've been dealing with a bug that sometimes makes text disappear when I try to edit stuff. (Which sounds kind of adorable if you imagine an actual bug eating your text or something. lol). It'll happen on drawing descriptions, journals, keywords, etc. Normally I'm careful about not clicking "update" when it occurs, but it just happened on my profile info and I didn't double-check before saving, so I had to rewrite it. I ended up adding some stuff I've been thinking about, though, so I suppose it worked out. I've also saved a copy in Word. Take that, bug! >:3
Anyhow, it seems to happen when the page finishes loading. So a page will pop up, the text will be there while it's loading, and then the instant it's done loading the text goes away. Since FA takes a while to load on my computer, I can often click it, ctrl+a, and copy it before it vanishes so that if/when it does I can just paste it back in. Sometimes I'm not quick enough, though, and I have to go back and reopen the page without saving so that I can try catching it again.
On the other hand, if the page takes a while to load, it might be long enough for me to scroll past the part that disappears and not notice that it goes away. Little text boxes (such as the Artist Information ones on "Edit Profile") don't seem to do it, so if I'm editing one of those and not paying attention to the main text I might not see it vanish and end up losing it.
I submitted a problem report just now, so hopefully they'll be able to tell me how to stop it (or at least know it's a problem they might want to fix).
Anyhow, it seems to happen when the page finishes loading. So a page will pop up, the text will be there while it's loading, and then the instant it's done loading the text goes away. Since FA takes a while to load on my computer, I can often click it, ctrl+a, and copy it before it vanishes so that if/when it does I can just paste it back in. Sometimes I'm not quick enough, though, and I have to go back and reopen the page without saving so that I can try catching it again.
On the other hand, if the page takes a while to load, it might be long enough for me to scroll past the part that disappears and not notice that it goes away. Little text boxes (such as the Artist Information ones on "Edit Profile") don't seem to do it, so if I'm editing one of those and not paying attention to the main text I might not see it vanish and end up losing it.
I submitted a problem report just now, so hopefully they'll be able to tell me how to stop it (or at least know it's a problem they might want to fix).
It first started in early June, I think, and I'm not sure what version of FF I had at the time.