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1. Mike Macgirvin (mike@macgirvin.com)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2017 20:51:59 EDT Mike Macgirvin
   Grrr. Bloody firebug. I don't use it any more since it has been incorporated into Firefox - but it was still installed.
   
   Long story short, a dozen times now over the last several months I would be composing a long text and my fat fingers slip reaching for the backspace and instead hit F12, which opens firebug. Annoying but no big deal. I close firebug. Then hit the backspace I meant to hit before. But since Firebug was launched the text window no longer has focus. The page does, and a backspace takes you to the previous page - instantly losing all your carefully composed text.
   
   I've just uninstalled Firebug. I'm also seriously considering creating an auto-save or save draft function.
   1. Mike Macgirvin (mike@macgirvin.com)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2017 01:11:17 EDT Mike Macgirvin

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      Glad I tested this. Because after you disable Firebug, the F12 shortcut is no longer mapped to Firebug - but still opens the developer tools. You need to install the 'Keybinder' addon to remove or modify the mapping. I removed the mapping for both F11 (full screen toggle) and F12 (developer tools).
      
      Now I just have to do the same thing on a dozen other computers.
   2. Mike Macgirvin (mike@macgirvin.com)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2017 06:37:53 EDT Mike Macgirvin

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      Is finger liposuction already a thing? ;-D
   3. Mike Macgirvin (mike@macgirvin.com)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2017 08:08:52 EDT Mike Macgirvin

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      I'm also seriously considering creating an auto-save or save draft function.

      
      I've been meaning to do this for years now but never quite get around to doing it. Discourse is an inspiration for this; I like their real-time preview mode and autosave. We probably can't do real-time preview but the autosave for sure. There's already the code to do that (mostly) with the personal notes feature.
   4. Mike Macgirvin (mike@macgirvin.com)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2017 13:05:41 EDT Mike Macgirvin

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      Yes, a draft function and (maybe customizable) auto-save would be great. I always compose longer texts in an editor and save often before copying+pasting it into the web app at the end.
      It's also more reliable than web app storage options even if they're there since it doesn't rely on a working connection.
      So can a script use the browser itself to store stuff on the device (I think I saw options to allow this in the settings)? If not, an auto-save function should better warn the user if the connection to the server is lost/unstable...