I just lost three hours of work in Firefox!!!

[miggols99]

I was working on a review for my website and accidentally pressed the back button. I frantically pressed the forward button to find that the input box was blank. I just lost three whole hours of work...

I just wish there was a way to recover it...in the cache? Somewhere?

[Dr Small]

Tough luck. There's no way that I know of. It was stored in the RAM, but is most likely gone now...

Next time, write things in vim, save every 5 sentances (if you are paranoid) and then when you are finished, copy and paste.

[Dr Small]

Wait, I have a better idea. Remove the back/forward/stop/refresh/home buttons, like me, and use keyboard shortcuts.

[Johnsie]

That sucks, I do that that all the time. I guess it depends on how the text boxes work on the site you are using. Some of them use special javascript ones and they re-load when you press the button to go back into them. It's too late for you to do anything now but in the future I recommend using the clipboard frequently to store data or writing them in a text editor and saving them. It would be nice if firefox could remember what was typed into textareas though. Maybe you could submit that as a a feature request over that their site.

[miggols99]

Well this has happened a few times ago..but not so much. How do you set keyboard shortcuts in Firefox? Do you need an addon?

[pt123]

But the real question is what were you doing on a web page for 3 hours.

[~LoKe]

Why anyone would put three hours worth of writing into a form is beyond me. All important work of mine is done in a text editor, so I can save when need be.

[urukrama]

One more reason why I love Opera. The text in input boxes remains there if you press back and then go back forward.

[miggols99]

But the real question is what were you doing on a web page for 3 hours.

Uh..typing a review for my website? I already said this didn't I?

@~LoKe: Wow..I really think I should start doing stuff like that in a text editor. It's in Drupal so I do everything on a web page. Never really thought of putting it in a text editor.

[tom66]

Dump all your memory to a file (cat /proc/kmem > memory.dat or something) then look for it? I don't know. By the way, don't do this if you have any more than two megabytes of memory... you'll regret it.