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Steps to reproduce problem:

1. Start quicksearching for a question
2. Click on "Ask your question" at the bottom of the quick search.
3. Note that the question defaults to your quick search terms.
4. Type a new question title.
5. Navigate away from the ask page (e.g. accidentally click on a link)
6. Press Back to get back to the ask page

Expected result: All fields retain their values when you left the page.

Actual result: Question title is reset to the quick search terms.

Workaround: Instead of pressing Back to get to the question, click on the main "ASK YOUR QUESTION" button, and your draft will be reloaded with the correct title. (This works even after you clicked Back to get back to the ask page, as long as you don't edit anything.)

Steps to reproduce problem:

1. Add a comment to a question or an answer
2. Click Add a comment again
3. Without cancelling, click Edit to edit your original comment
4. Cancel the edit of your comment
5. Click Add a comment again

Repeat steps 2-5 ad nauseum to get as many new comment entry widgets as you like.

I'd upvote this but I don't have any karma.

Speaking of time zones, when I submit this comment I have a bad feeling that it's going to say 1 hour ago. (OK, it didn't, there must be a bug in the askbot instance I was using.)

I accidentally pressed the Escape key while composing a comment. An alert appeared asking

Are you sure you don't want to post this comment?

I made the mistake of trying to cancel the alert by pressing the Escape key. The alert was cancelled on the keydown of the Escape key... and then the subsequent keyup triggered the confirm abandon message again.

Obviously once I realised what was going on I used a different way of cancelling the alert, but the bug remains.

On a side note I noticed that just before you add the keyup escape handler you also add various event handlers to update the counter, normally I would suggest that the input event is the most reliable way to achieve this.

This is particularly annoying in Firefox because the act of focusing the search box scrolls it into view which means that links to answers and comments don't work, and also the back button loses its place.