Or your form data was submitted but you cannot remember what you have entered in a specific field, and when you go back the web form is empty again.

Firefox does not have options to direct the submission of a form to a new tab or window. This usually means that you cannot go back to access the data that you have entered into the form. It may even be worse if you have started filling out a multi-page form.

The Firefox add-on TabSubmit adds options to Firefox to direct form submissions to a new tab or window. This leaves the page with the form and data you have entered on its own page; Excellent if you need to go back to that form to see what you have entered or if you need to re-submit the form.

TabSubmit is a complete re-write of the now defunct SubmitToTab. The developer on top of the existing features added support for the HTML5 formtaget attribute, switched from re-writing existing handlers to using event listeners “to hook into the mouse behavior” for a safer and more robust approach and added support for SeaMonkey.

The add-on is restartless which means that it can be installed and uninstalled without browser restart.

The Firefox extension does not change the default way of submitting tabs. You can still left-click on any submit button to submit the form to the same tab.

If you middle-click on the submit button, or hold down Ctrl while left-clicking, you will submit the form to a new tab instead. Holding down Shift while left-clicking submits the form to a new browser window instead.

The new form submission options take some getting used to time but it is the only practical option to implement the feature. You’d otherwise open web searches and other basic form submissions on a new tab or window automatically which would result in chaos.

TabSubmit is an excellent Firefox add-on for users who regularly use sign-up forms and submission forms. The add-on works with all versions of Firefox from 3 onwards. The restartless feature is only available under Firefox 4. (via)

Nedjosoft Paperform is a free application that can be used to fill out paper forms with a computer. The document has to be available digitally so that it can be processed by the software, this can be achieved by scanning a paper form or download a digital version right away.

The program works basically by loading so called pages into it. Pages are images with the jpg, png, bmp or gif file extension. The user can then switch to edit mode once an image has been loaded into the software.

Fields can be added to the image which can later be filled out by the user. There are two basic types of fields: text fields and check boxes.

Both fields are divided further. Text boxes can be single or multi lined and aligned to the left, center or right while check boxes can have various forms as well. Each field can be placed exactly on the image so that they match the form fields perfectly.

Once all fields have been added to the image the digital form can be saved and filled out.

If you do that regularly this becomes a tedious time consuming process. I like to automate stuff like that. Autofill Forms is a Firefox extension that lets you fill out web forms with the click of the mouse / pressing a keyboard shortcut. It is possible to create profiles in case that you are using more than one identity on the Internet or use the extension for work and spare time.

You can fill out a lot of variables like name, username, street, city, phone and several others with the option to add new ones to that list or edit existing fields. This is important because the extension uses possible form field names to identify forms on the website.

By default it assigns the birthday to forms that have the name byear, birthyear, birth-year or dob-year. It would be possible to add ‘date of birth’ to that list and every other phrase that comes to your mind.

It is possible to set rule priorities and add site specific rules. Profiles can be exported which is excellent if you work with different computers. The default keyboard shortcut for filling out a form is ALT + J.

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Fireform is able to fill out most forms automatically when you right-click the icon of the extension in the status bar and select fill in this page – left-clicking the icon has the same effect. You will have to create a profile before you can start using the automatic fill option. The profile is independent from existing Firefox profiles and will be used only for the FireForm extension.

You can supply information like names, contact information (email, phone), address and misc information like birthday. Once the profile is created you can use FireForm or create more profiles for other users that use this computer.

There might be the time when you come upon a website that uses a field that is not covered by the default selection that you edited in your FireForm profile. It would then be time to add a custom field to FireForm by using the Display Fields option of it.

Now hover over the field that you want to add and FireForm should display information about that field, the most important is the name that the developers have chosen for it. Remember that name and go to tools > fireform > advanced profiles management and add a description that you can choose freely, a value that should be automatically entered and the trigger that was displayed when you hovered over the form.

Sites tend to use different names for the same subject and you will have to edit those settings often in the beginning. You can add additional triggers to a form by separating them with “;”.