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Re:Recover lost text by coredumping Firefox by g-b-r on Sunday October 22, 2023 @07:17PM (#37979950)
I recovered stuff from memory dozens of times, I imagine it's common for technical people...

Anyhow for browsers I long learned to first write in a reliable editor any text longer than a couple lines, you can lose them for a million reasons if you write directly in the browser (to the point that I don't know how people not doing it maintain their sanity...)

And by the way the reason sometimes is that the text gets deleted (e.g. StackOverflow comments....), so I often also leave around in a file for at least some time the stuff that took more time to write

(in the meanwhile genius me tried writing the first version of this message directly in a app, which crashed as I was finishing it :facepalm: )

Re:Recover lost text by coredumping Firefox by trillic on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @01:14PM (#38002149)
I now do all my text composition longer than a couple lines either in an email draft or a VScode window that I always have open to a generic “notes” folder.

VSCODE is configured to auto save every time I switch focus or have a short delay in typing.