Have you ever experienced a situation where you finished typing in text in a web form on the Internet only to find out that you could not post it on the website because of server timeouts, web browser crashes or other errors? Going back to that form usually results in it being blank. The only thing that can be done is to type the text anew and hope that it can be submitted this time.
Well, there is actually another option that is provided by the Lazarus Form Data Recovery extension for the Firefox web browser. Lazarus saves form data as soon as it is entered by the user in its SQLite database (lazarus.sqlite in the profile folder). This makes it possible to recover the form data when vising the page the form was on again.
There are obviously some privacy concerns which are handled excellently by the software program. It is for one possible to set a period (minute, hour, day, week) in which the form data is stored. Once the time is up the form data gets erased. Another security measure is that it is possible to create a password that has to be supplied once per browsing session before form data can be restored. The form data in the database is encrypted to prevent that users with local computer access can reveal the form information there directly.
The form data recovery add-on works by right-clicking the form on the Internet website. The user can then select the Recover Text or Recover Form entry to restore the text in that form.
Lazarus works nicely in the background and can be a real life safer for users who regularly post lots of text.
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Unfortunately, like a lot of things fx these days, privacy seems to be a secondary issue.
Personally I don’t keep any kind of history and I periodically delete all those nasty sqlite files that like to keep data.
For me a better option is itsalltext.https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125 It does it’s editing outside the browser if your favourite editor and as far as I can tell, no secret history of what one may have typed in to a form in some dim and distant past.
@Quill
You are right in that for most addons privacy is a secondary issue. However this is not the case for Lazarus.
Right from the start we knew we would be keeping very sensitive information on your computer. So we encrypt all data using RSA and AES encryption (even if you don’t set a password). By using Hybrid encryption we get to be able to encrypt the data as soon as the browser starts and only need the password when you attempt to recover a form.
You can read more about our security measures here (http://lazarus.interclue.com/faq.html#security) if you like. I hope you’ll give Lazarus a go.
Worked for a while, then most of the major websites updated (in the past few months of 2011) their java or code or whatever, and it became a totally useless add-on for posting comments, etc.
As well, it doesn’t show up in the taskbar on FFox 5.0.
Needs a lot of work before it is really good again, like it was when it was first introduced.
Sorry, hate to be critical, but if something is advertised as supposed to work a certain way, and doesn’t, then people should say so and people should know so.