You probably know this problem when you fill out a web form. You just entered a lot information in this form, it took you minutes to do so and after hitting the send button the website crashes. All entries gone!
Same happens when you try to leave a comment on a blog. You write a book long great comment and then nothing, just a blank page after you hit the send / submit button. If you go back, the comment field is empty. How frustrated is that?
That also happens quite often because of time out error.
Today I will show you a little Firefox Add-on, which will help to avoid those “shit happens” things. It’s called Lazarus: Form Recovery, and saves automatically your entries while you are typing. If the site or your computer crashes, just go back to the page and hit the right mouse button and click “recover form”. Everything will be there, how wonderful is that!
Bonus tip
Another short tip is how to delete entries in the recommend list for a textfield. Firefox saves all entered entries you did before in a form and listed them as recommendation if you fill out a form the next time. That can be very useful but also very annoying. Why? Because if you mistyped your name or any other entry quite often, those entries will be also in your list. Fortunately it’s very easy to delete those entries, just go with your mouse to the mistyped entry so it will be marked blue, press the “Delete” button and it is gone until you mistype something again. 
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December 19th, 2008 at 1:33 am
Really i am facing this problem while blogging ..I find a nice solution here and i would like to check it out once..
January 1st, 2009 at 11:03 am
I never faced such a problem but still it was informational for me and i will surely implement it whenever i face such kind of problem..
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Naruto Ninja
January 2nd, 2009 at 6:44 am
Thank you, this helps a lot
January 6th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
Wow, thats great! I had this probs way too often. Installed Lazarus right away. Bonus tip is also a nice thing to know.
Greets,
Oliver
January 7th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
You’re welcome Oliver, hope that will help you alot.
January 19th, 2009 at 8:24 am
Thanks for the tip to the add on for Firefox. It will save a lot of aggravation
October 1st, 2009 at 11:06 am
You solution works, thanks
October 2nd, 2009 at 1:50 pm
@411, glad to hear that!
(sorry for the late reply, but I was on vacation in South Africa)
September 30th, 2010 at 9:01 pm
nice tips, i am also facing with same problem.your tips are too informative and easy to activate.i hope these tips can very helpful to anyone who are working with Firefox.
February 4th, 2011 at 11:24 am
Wow that’s a great tool, its so frustrating when that happens. Firefox is my favourite browser.