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By: monkeytrots in POPE IV | Recommend this post (2)
Thu, 14 Sep 17 12:51 AM | 93 view(s)
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DE - take a look at your browser keyboard shortcuts - the ones that affect page. The focus is probably going out of the page area first - going to the browser(ie menu/bookmark/status/edge) control area. Then there are several possibilities as to which 'browser command' is taking over and erasing our work (forward,backward,page refresh, etc.).

The combo keys mostly involve the Fx keys, control combos, and a few shift-key commands - so it MAY not be a single key sequence cause- it may be two or three causes.

NOTE: There are times when the Chrome based browser simply gets hosed and the ctrl key is turned on, turned off, or even re-mapped. I have seen this in the browser/window/tab remapping one 'shortcut key' to another shortcut altogether. Example: Page-zoom+/- getting remapped to 'next tab', 'tab in page to different field', 'new tab' or even 'new window'.

So - to the list of possibilities add in browser program error (possibly from memory overflow or memory mapping program error).

The 'backspace key' is ONLY going to 'erase' our work if the 'cursor focus' is first shifted from the 'text area' to the 'page menu' area. And, yes, that will duplicate the problem we experience. I have verified that. The problem is How is the focus getting shifted - I am having to do that manually with the cursor - haven't gotten an 'accidental key sequence' to do it yet.




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Re: Weather events 2
By: Decomposed in POPE IV
Wed, 13 Sep 17 5:32 PM 		Msg. 33964 of 47202

"It's available for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. (Sorry, Internet Explorer users.)" 

October 23, 2013

How to quickly recover lost form data in your browser

By Rick Broida, PCWorld

This is an update of a browser extension I last wrote about a couple years back. It's too good not to revisit every so often.

Just the other day, this happened: After writing a fairly lengthy post in a browser-based blog tool, I hit the Backspace key to delete something--but because my cursor wasn't inside the text field at the time, Chrome interpreted that as the keyboard shortcut for "back." In other words, back to the previous page. A big chunk of my unsaved work: gone.

Crud.

(I've been experimenting with the "Backspace" key in Chrome and can't duplicate the problem. What I've experienced sounds like what the article's author describes; I just can't make the Backspace key cause it. -De) 

This kind of thing can happen in all kinds of circumstances. Maybe you click Next or Save after completing a Web form, and your browser crashes, or the server times out, or your Internet connection croaks. Whatever the case, it means you just wasted a bunch of time and lost a bunch of work.

Fortunately, there's a simple, effective "do over" in the form of Lazarus, a browser add-on that makes it easy to recover lost form data. It's available for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. (Sorry, Internet Explorer users.) http://getlazarus.com/download

Lazarus automatically (and securely, with a password if you prefer) saves every keystroke you enter into any Web form, blog tool, comment box, or what have you.

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To bring back your data, just look for the little Lazarus symbol above whatever box you were typing in. Click it, then choose the snippet of text you want to recover. Presto! It reappears like magic.

I can't count the number of times Lazarus has rescued me from accidental deletions, wayward keystrokes, and the like. If you use any of the supported browsers, this is a must-have extension.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2056714/how-to-quickly-recover-lost-form-data-in-your-browser.html

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