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Old Aug 29, 2016 | 7:41 pm
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1StRanger
 
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Originally Posted by goalie
I have also run into this in the past and having learned the hard way , what I do now is to periodically preview my post as that keeps the post intact (unless of course you wait too long to decide to preview the post )
That's a useful hint. Thanks for that, I don't remember if I had known about it. But if you are distracted from the computer (or the particular browser windows), it still does not help.

Originally Posted by IBobi
I've asked if they can put this idea on the back burner. We shall see.
Thank you!

As an aside: Sometimes, when one of my former bosses wanted something done by somebody from a supporting infrastructure units, he was going to "light a fire under that person's a.. back"... I wonder if that's how your "back burner" works.

Originally Posted by TWA884
Try Lazarus: Form Recovery extension.
Thank you. It could be a very useful extension in some cases.
But when you are writing from a computer that is not your own (and that's one of the cases when you don't want to have a persistent login), you do not (or cannot) install extensions. And that's when problems described happen.
BTW, I suspect, it might not be available for some browsers (e.g. IE).
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