It is quite a part of our daily lives when we face technical glitches when working online. Errors in some form or the other crop up, half of which you may not even know why. Confirm Form Resubmission is one of those popup errors you must have witnessed while using Chrome Browser. Many users have complained about the error and are still seen in selective Chrome versions. Often people using browsers other than Chrome have also reported on facing such glitches. We will learn why those bugs pop up and what we can do to get rid of Confirm Form Resubmission.

What does Confirm Form Resubmission mean?

It is one of the technical errors that come up while using Google Chrome and similar browsers or while you refresh the pages or reload Chrome repeatedly before completing an action.

Many forums believe that Confirm Form Resubmission is not an error. Instead, it is a warning featured by Chrome. The bugs appear either when you refresh a webpage on Chrome again or again or pressing the back button too many times.

The Confirm Form Resubmission pop up shows up on various online forms, some are below:

• Sign up forms and login forms
• Search forms for searching a database
• Credit card forms for completing transactions
• Or anything that has to do with add, edit or delete entries or files on a database

The “Confirm Form Resubmission” error sample and message:

The page that you’re looking for used information that you entered. Returning to that page might cause any action you took to be repeated. Do you want to continue?

Cause of Confirm Form Resubmission error 

Many believe that the reason behind such error popping up is because of Chrome’s security filtration, wherein the error acts as a feature to prevent other browsers from duplicating any POST actions while the current page is in process. For instance, you make a payment through the payment gateway and then press the refresh option. When the user provides data, it is transferred from the user’s browser to the server. There is a high chance of duplication of data during this process. 

You can understand it when you are filling in your debit or credit card credentials to make an online payment. Once you click submit, the transaction process begins. If you click refresh meanwhile, the Confirm Form Resubmission dialogue pops up.

This also occurs when you try resubmitting the data again and again. The Confirm Form Resubmission pops up. Thus, Chrome developer features the form to prevent competitive browsers from duplicating post actions on any form.

Sometimes it is not only Chrome. Non-Chrome users, too, face similar issues. It could be because the Chrome’s module that deals with the forward and backward movement are poorly built.

The form is a protective measure to prevent duplicate transactions. For instance, if the Form does not appear during the transaction, there may be two transactions from the same card instead of one. To prevent such an issue, the error could be considered necessary instead. 

Let us learn how to turn off Confirm Form Resubmission.

How to prevent Confirm Form Resubmission popup?

Though developed for a reason, you may find it a tad annoying given the number of times it pops up and the interruptions during a critical action. In order to avoid the same, you will have to make sure not to refresh the webpage after clicking on submit. 

How to fix Confirm Form Submission error?

Follow these steps to fix the Confirm Form Resubmission error:

1. Check internet connection

The first and foremost fix is to check if there is a stable connection. If there is and yet the error keeps showing, try the next fix.

2. Clear browsing data

With Chrome, all the transactions and information input gets saved automatically. What you can do is clear the Chrome browsing data. Once you force the app to forget all, there is no scope for duplication. In order to do so,

• Open your Google Chrome browser.
• Click on the three dots on the top right corner of the Chrome page.
• Choose More Tools and then click on Clear Browsing Data from the drop-down menu. 
• Select the Advanced tab and choose all the data you wish to delete. 
• Click on Clear Data.

3. Reset browser settings

Sometimes due to Chrome’s improper configuration, there is a chance such errors may interrupt our tasks. What you can do is reset Chrome’s settings to original defaults and see that no more Confirm Form Resubmission error pops up. Please follow the steps to reset your browser settings.

• Open Chrome.
• Click on the three dots on the top right corner of the screen.
• Click on Settings. A new tab opens.
• Drag your cursor down all the way to the Advanced option. Click on the down arrow to expand the menu.
• Find the ‘Restore settings to their original defaults option. Click on it. 
• Your Google Chrome browser is restored to its original default version. 

This should help you clean all your configurations and turn off Confirm Form Resubmission as a whole.

4. Disable corrupted extensions

Sometimes it could be the many extensions in your Chrome, one of which could be corrupted and lead to bugs. In order to rectify that-

• Open Chrome.
• Click on the three dots on the top right corner of the screen.
• Click on More Tools, and then Extensions.
• You have a whole list of extensions you must have been using. Click on the toggle button and disable extensions one by one.
• Re-enable them one by one and see if it helps.

5. Check and change Google Chrome properties

It could be possible changing Chrome properties could fix this issue. You must note that you require at least two shortcut icons for Chrome to try this method. You will implement this method on one of the icons and let the other shortcut remain as it is, i.e., with the original default properties. This way, the one with the modified properties will help fix the Confirm Form Resubmission bug.

• Go to the Chrome icon shortcut and right-click on the same.
• Select Properties from the menu.
• A dialog box appears. Find a field named Target.
• In the field, type ‘-disable-prompt-in-repost.’
• Now reopen Chrome using the same shortcut icon.

The POST/Redirect/GET (PRG) Pattern

The probable reason why Confirm Form Resubmission error pops up is because forms on web pages use only POST. If we use PRG, the problem could be fixed. The PRG adds an intermediary in between the page that needs a form on it and the actual page that follows. The intermediary page stops posting any data directly to the server. Consequently, any form filled by the user and the processing is directly sent to the server and is well protected. 

Conclusion

Although not considered a bug by the Chrome developers, we understand how annoying it can be to see the Confirm Form Resubmission error again and again. With the above quick fixes, you will get rid of the Confirm Form Resubmission instantly. Make sure you try one of the fixes to make your online browsing experience and PC problem-free.