I use Lazarus, works quite well, its not perfect but has saved my butt many times. I also use firefox
:) I actually happen to maintain a little spin of Linux that I put together to help new users migrate more smoothly. But that’s a topic for another conversation. O:)
Meanwhile is there any way to convince you to run Firefox or Chrome on Windows? I think you’ll have a better time with crash recovery and autosaving. As I said, it’s already natively working with the Simple Post Editor in Firefox, and it looks like I can probably get it working for the Advanced Post Editor as well.
As somebody else mentioned, the autosaving is usually not server-side. Most implementations these days take advantage of an HTML5 feature for local browser storage. Here’s a list of supported browsers. Not sure why IE11 failed you, since it’s also on the list.
I use Compuserve, and my mom’s AOL as backup, for my dial up 56k connection. I’m using all my extra CD’s as coasters because I’ve got 260000+ free hours (oh the days when internet access was measured in time…)
I hope this isn’t off topic by the time it has been uploaded 
BTW, thanks for all your hard work SB, I love this forum and I spend an inordinate amount of time here every day. I’d be remiss for sure if you weren’t at the helm.
My pleasure, onetrickpony! Thanks for saying so.
If you have a moment, you can quickly click the [ Preview ] button. I used to spend a lot of extra time copying my replies & pasting them into Notepad “just in case”. The Preview function gets it into the browser quicker and easier.
Yeah I was pretty excited when IE11 came out as well. Now I can download Chrome and Firefox 20% faster on a new install!
Truthfully, I have not tried IE in a LONG time. MS let it stagnate for quite a while and Firefox and Chrome were far superior. A buddy of mine works for MS and keeps telling me that it is competitive now, but I just can’t bring myself to try it. Shared bookmarks between my Chromebook, phone and desktop are pushing me more and more towards Chrome. I have not had any problems with lost posts in Firefox, and I too have a tendency to research and switch tabs a lot while writing things up.
Getting some strange blue screens
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘@’ in /srv/www/drupal7/sites/all/modules/rules/modules/php.eval.inc(146) : eval()’d code on line 1
Sorry about that, my fault.
Cool, thanks for your efforts on the upgrade.
left a pm about some apparently transient errors noticed just now
How did you get 260k free hours?
29.66 years at 24 hours a day :GRADE:
testing if my name shows up as ‘edited by’ under the original post (until someone else adds a new last edit)
what is it your testing?
The email notification system. Don’t get your hopes up yet, though, it’ll be a while.
I have a request, if it’s possible. After passing the first page of search results, if you read a thread and hit the back button, it takes you back to the 1st page of search results, no matter what page of results your on. I think you just made an adjustment to a similar situation in recent posts.
Thanks
I had this problem as well but haven’t since sb fixed the issue. Maybe clearing the browser cache will help?
There’s always the option of opening in a new tab, if you don’t want the state of the first tab disturbed.
I probably never would have noticed the issue you described, since I’ve long been in the habit of using new tabs instead of expecting ‘back’ to produce the same state as a page was in before. The web hasn’t had reliable ‘back’ behavior since functional javascript got popular and produced “Web 2.0”.
Hi Administrator.
Welcome to BLF.
Nice name, by the way. But your messages are a little terse
