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I just wrote a feature request and then: Launchpad error. The Form interface did not allow firefox to auto-recover the text... (#)$%)(&#$

Charlie told me recently that he wrote an article for the blog and then his browser said bye and it was not saved.

The solution: Lazarus: Form Recovery

I hope this will help you too.

PS: I consider this relevant because lots of development (bug reporting and so on) happens in HTML forms.

Session Manager does this while expanding greatly on the session save/restore capabilities built into Firefox.

Another alternative is to do your writing in a real text editor. This is what It's All Text allows you to do in your $EDITOR. Start with the existing text from the textarea, edit, and when you save and quit the contents are put back into the textarea. Quite handy for a number of reasons, but reliability is a good one because you can always save regularly to a real file while you are at it.

Personally, I do this with Vimperator which uses vim, of course. This extension does much, much more though.