Preventing them from closing tabs when a post is being written

TriKri

Hi! I was just writing a quite long reply to a thread I have started, when I got a brain fart and suddenly closed the tab in which I had the thread open. I lost all the text I had written, including a lot of discussion and a couple of links to different research papers. I couldn't retrieve anything. Doh. I wish that this forum would warn users before closing a tab in which they have started to write a post, in order to save them from their own stupidity (in my case it is obviously necessary). Thanks!

Evo

I would expect a warning about closing a browser tab would be from your browser.

Drakkith

Can the website even do this?

Greg Bernhardt

Sort of, but it's extremely problematic.

Ryan_m_b

If I'm writing a long reply I always C&P regularly, sometimes into a word doc.

TriKri

Yeah, that's a good habit, but usually I think that I will just write a short post and don't care about doing that. Like now. Then it turns out to become miles long. :P

lisab

I think it's happened to everyone at one point. If a post I'm writing starts to get long, I select and copy it, just so I have a copy in the cache.

TriKri

That's quite smart too, I should also start doing that.

Redbelly98

For those who may be unaware of the shortcuts for select-all and copy:

<Ctrl> a
<Ctrl> c