Why doesn't Firefox show the correct default select option?

Question

I\'m making a web app to manage product SKUS. One part of that is to associate SKUs with product names. On each row of a table, I list a SKU and display a

Answer 1

An easy way to prevent Firefox from caching the last selected option is to remove all of the option elements on page unload. For example (assuming jQuery):

$(window).unload(function() {
  $('select option').remove();
});