Guild Wars 2

Countless times have I accidentaly pressed the wrong button and caused the browser to go to a different page. Just as many times have I pressed the “Post reply” button just to have it not work and have the reply gone forever.

More than half of those replies were long and well-written replies that worked on for at least 10 minutes.

If anyone is typing a reply and, say, accidentally closes the browser, (s)he should be able to come back to the same page and see the reply that was written before appear in the reply text field.

I’ve never accidentally closed the browser, or navigated off the page, but it is irksome to have typed out a reply and have the page redirect you to the log-in site, and lose said reply. Sigh.

What browser are you using? Most browsers have extensions and plug-ins you can add to where anything you type is temporarily saved so if you accidentally hit ‘back’ and lose it, going forward to the page again (or close and re-open a tab) will give you a pop-up asking if you want to restore the text.

I use Opera 12.15 with the Persistent Text extension. It works perfectly and I’ve never lost comments I’ve written on web sites since I started using it despite doing those blunders that would cause me to lose it without that extension.