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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Form Fox is another security add-on for the Firefox web browser. It deals with web forms as the name suggests and displays the destination url of the submit button in an overlay. Attackers use web forms to submit the data to one of their servers instead of the original server. The problem is that inexperienced users have a hard time checking the destination of the web form on a website as it is visible in the source code of the website.

Even experienced users might not want to check the destination every time they visit the website as this turns out to be quite time consuming when done on every visit.

Form Fox displays the destination directly in an overlay when the user hovers the mouse cursor over the submit form which automates the manual method of looking up a web forms destination url.

A rule of thumb is that a web form is usually safe if it links to a page on the same domain whereas links to other domains should be analyzed carefully before submitting the form data. FormFox is available for all Firefox 2 and 3 editions.

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Text Area Resizer And Mover comes to the rescue; At least for Firefox users. The Firefox extension makes it possible to resize virtually any html form on the Internet. This is done in an uncomplicated manner.

Once a html form has been located that the user wants to resize he simply presses the right-mouse button after moving the mouse into the form. The mouse pointer changes to a resize symbol and the html form can be resized by moving the mouse.

The default html form at Ghacks for commenting on an article:

The altered html form at Ghacks:

It is possible to make it smaller or bigger although most users will probably stick with the latter. Text Area html forms are those that usually span across multiple rows. The extension cannot be used to increase the size of the Google Search form but as you can see in the images above it is possible to change comment forms and the like easily.

The forms only expand to the right and bottom of the screen but never to the left or upwards.

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