Avoid frustration, save the world

[mjp]

If you have ever typed a response to a post here but hit the wrong key or gone out for a massage before posting and had your brilliant contribution LOST to the evil gods of forumville, I have a present for you: the Lazarus form recovery plugin for the Firefox browser.

This little monster works on any text input field, not just forums. If you somehow lose your typing, just go back to the box you typed in, right click, and there is a "recover text" option.

 

[cirerita]

Awesome!

 

[Ponder]

Yes it is.

 

[Black Swan]

This should work for Mac.
http://lazarus-form-recovery.en.softonic.com/mac

 

[mjp]

Oh, and here it is for Chrome, if you swing that way.

(Though I don't know if it will work in the forum here: NOTE: Lazarus 3 doesn't save WYSIWYG editors yet, this is due to a Chrome bug (http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=20773) which prevents us from accessing the iframe that is used to display the editor. There's little I can do until this bug is fixed, sorry.)

 

[roni]

nice.

 

[hoochmonkey9]

just used this for the first time. I was leaving a long and boring comment on a friends blog, had to wander away from the computer to look at shiny things for awhile, and when I came back the comment was gone.

hit the cross, and there it was!

that's a long way of saying it works.

 

[mjp]

hit the cross, and there it was!

That's what Jesus said!

Though Lazarus uses the biblical character for a name, I think they use the Egyptian Ankh as an icon...

 

[Black Swan]

Fuck, I just lost a long letter that I'd written!
Can I still do this after the fact?

 

[mjp]

No, I'm afraid it has to be installed in the browser first in order to save your typing.

 

[Black Swan]

I thought so. Well, if what I had to say was essential, it will resurface, or be resurrected.
but it will probably stay where it is, in limbo.