[db48x]

You’re forgetting that browsers store all of the text you type just in case the browser crashes or the power goes out or the website is offline. Later you can revisit the same page and the form data that you already entered will be refilled for you. It _is_ how browsers work.

[gsich]

This data is stored on your computer, not on anyone elses. (or if the website owner decides, it's stored there, but this would be indepdent of the browser used)

[bossyTeacher]

This is completely untrue. Do you work for mozilla? Text entered in forms like the one you use to write comments like this one don't get saved. Any logic to do with saving it is a matter for the developer of the website not the browser. This is like saying that ISP need to be granted license to forward the packages that make up your http request.

[db48x]

Have you never noticed this feature before? I’m starting to feel old. I was there, three thousand years ago. I was there when the strength of men failed. I mean, I was there when both the web and Firefox were really unreliable. We realized how much pain it was causing people to type things into the web browser only for it to crash and completely lose all of their hard work. Or for the webpage to throw up an error and cast their comment into the flames. We decided that the browser should save that text somewhere, so that if (and when) the user goes back it can be placed back into the form as if by magic.

But I agree that it’s stupid that Mozilla now feels you need to give it explicit permission to do this rather than implicit permission. But since only you own the copyright to the comments you write, maybe I can see the point.