You must have encountered the popup of “Confirm Form Resubmission” when you are using your internet on Google Chrome. This type of popup generally occurs when you have pressed the back or the confirm form submission on the refresh button when you have filled any form on the page. It occurs in other browsers also while you submit the form.
How to Fix Confirm Form Resubmission Popup?
It may be annoying to you when you have to submit the form again and again and this pop-up appears to you. Many internet users are trying to figure out how to disable it. So here we will provide you with the full solution on how you can disable this popup.
So keep reading this post and you will come to know the solution to this problem. First, let us have a look at what is the reason behind this popup and afterward we will see the solution.
Confirm Form Resubmission Popup – Causes
When this feature was not introduced by chrome then it generally happened that the form would be submitted twice or thrice depending upon the clicks. If the internet is slow then or the computer is slow then it generally happens that we press the button many times. So to prevent this from submission several times Google Chrome invented this action and it came to be a plus point to most of the users.
Suppose you are buying something and you clicked it twice and the money got deducted twice then you will be annoyed. So this feature is good for this kind of people. Further, despite many Chrome user complaints and bug reports this issue has remained persistent.
Till now no Google developer has been to break this kind of solution and write the whole code from the scratch. But we have come up with a solution to this problem. So let us see what the possible fixes to this problem are.
How to Fix Confirm Form Resubmission Popup?
Solution 1: Google Forum Fix
In the Google product forum user said that is fix is has come up with an annoying feature.
So how to disable this function and requires that you can follow these instructions. Although this works it is recommended to use these fixes at your own risk:
1. In the Chrome shortcut select and right-click on the icon.
2. In the drop-down menu click on the properties.
3. In the target field add in: “-disable-prompt-on-repost”.
C:\Users\John\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe -disable-prompt-on-repost.
Solution 2: No need to use the back button
Another user posted that this is not a bug as chrome does not cache POST. So make sure that do not press the back button when you submit a form or just close the window after submission.
Solution 3: Google Chrome Update
In the new Google update, there has been a fix for this form submission and it has been cleared out with the update of Google Chrome. So check for the compatible update and install it on your device.
This is not a type of error that is to be addressed but an inconvenience that most of the users face upon the form submission.
How To Prevent POST On Reloading A Form?
If you press the refresh button that it is obvious that chrome will ask to submit the form again with a warning message. If the forms are submitted using the POST then this error is displayed.
It means that the whole of the data that you entered in the form will be submitted again when you reload the page.
It occurs in the forms like when you pay using the credit card on a commerce website and send a verification, etc. The browser fills the form again while you click on the Submit button which in turn sends the form data using POST.
The scripts on the server take the action and the same script is reloaded again and a verification page is sent back to the internet browser. Thus when a user reloads the page this script is refreshed and the alert is shown and any action that is already done will be done again through the POST.
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Conclusion:
So here we told you how you can fix the error of form resubmission and get rid of this annoying feature. If you are facing any problem with other features of chrome just tell us in the comments section below. We will be happy to address your problem.