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Any trick to waking up FireFox?



On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 07:05:17PM -0400, David Kramer wrote:
> I even tried suspending the laptop and waking it up again.  Normally
> it's not a problel, but I edit pages on wikis a lot, and that means lost
> work.

I have this reflexive ctrl-w-to-erase-word-backwards habit that works great
everywhere except firefox, where it has this annoying tendency to kill my
ticket update, wiki edits, email, etc.

After the umpteenth time this happened, I installed Textarea Cache:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5761

And my life has been much better since.

-ben

--
if you can't be just, be arbitrary.             <william s. burroughs>






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