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efelbar

@j3s though I don't fully understand what this does or the tools used... I can *feel* the cursed vibes radiating off of it >:3

when have you had a website erase text without it being related to a crash/page reload/etc, which I assume this trick does not work on?

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✨jes✨

@flbr this should work on a page crash/reload situation as well! firefox has a bunch of memory and your string of words is probably still in that abyss somewhere, waiting to be written over.

but for example when i type a big long answer and hit submit, and the website says my session has timed out, and hitting back only gets me to a "login" page instead of the page w/ my text on it ;..;

efelbar

@j3s ohhhhhh, yeah that's definitely happened to me within the past week, that's super cool!

Jesse

@j3s @flbr
Now that situation has a simpler solution. When you submit and the app decides you're no longer logged in: freeze! Don't touch that current tab!

Open a new tab, go to the same site, log-in. Only then move back to the tab you were typing on and go back a page.

This usually saves the text for me!

But the place where this will most likely happen to me nowadays has a surprisingly decent auto-save, so I don't really need to do this that often anymore.

@j3s @flbr
Now that situation has a simpler solution. When you submit and the app decides you're no longer logged in: freeze! Don't touch that current tab!

Open a new tab, go to the same site, log-in. Only then move back to the tab you were typing on and go back a page.

This usually saves the text for me!

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