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Does it protect the contents of text boxes?

Does it protect the contents of text boxes?

Posted May 20, 2006 23:46 UTC (Sat) by fergal (subscriber, #602)
Parent article: A test drive of Firefox Bon Echo Alpha 2

It's quite remarkable that Firefox 1.5 (and probably every other browser) will happily throw away several hours worth of typing with a single mis-click. Have they by any chanceadded an "Are you sure you want to close this tab/go back/clear the form and throw away your email/blog posting?" dialog?

As things stand Window's Notepad takes better care of users' hard work than browsers do.

Bug filed long ago but untouched so far.


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Does it protect the contents of text boxes?

Posted May 25, 2006 9:36 UTC (Thu) by arcticwolf (guest, #8341) [Link]

There's an extension called undoclosetab that does just that and which will restore form contents, too. Saved my on more than one occasion, although I agree it would be nicer if the browser itself weren't so brain-dead about this...

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