I'm at my WIT'S end, please HEELLLLLLLLP???
I don't know where to begin?
I just lost everything I wrote in a passioned plea to my Governor, in a form on his website, because I forgot I had all trackers blocked (the WHOLE LIST!), in your GREAT little Focus Browser app!! I'm in shock and utter despair. I can't believe it!!
No, I don't remember it all. I can't redo it. The whole screen was erased after I realized it amies tried trio change the settings, in hopes of resending it.
So sorry to bother you. Thanks so much for listening and caring.
Please take care and talk to me?
Sincerely, Michael
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Oh my goodness Micheal. I'm so sorry for your loss of valuable text.
I'm sure it was deeply impassioned & written with great & measured thought. I, too, have suffered a loss such as this many years ago when writing in a form. After the huge shock wore off, I swore from that day on to never type something long & meaningful into a form on the internet without backing it up multiple times after each completed paragraph.
I would save it into a Notepad file but you can use MS Word or Wordpad or any other text editor you choose. But since you're on Android, Google Docs is a definite must! Or some light-weight app options here: https://bit.ly/2QWU12j. Just make sure to copy it there & save it. Multiple times. It's what I've always done since & I know it sounds annoying but I've never lost a large piece of writing since & I've avoided feeling such devastation ever since.
Just know you aren't alone in your pain as we've all been there at least once before. We mourn the loss of your text & ours & hope this tragedy never befalls anyone else. :'(
Kind Regards, Noah
Yes, but, WHY DOES Firefox Focus DO THAT, (erase things/data/important forms), every time you change the tracking blockers settings?! SHEESH!!!
And I even tried to find their contact info but they don't have any email address? They just keep sending people here to their forums!?
Hi
The people who answer questions here, for the most part, are other Firefox users volunteering their time (like me), not Mozilla employees or Firefox developers.
Firefox Focus is designed as a lightweight privacy focussed browser for quick searches, but Noah_SUMO has some great suggestions that should help in the future.
Mikemar1 said
Yes, but, WHY DOES Firefox Focus DO THAT, (erase things/data/important forms), every time you change the tracking blockers settings?! SHEESH!!!
If you had enabled "Block other content trackers", that would've been cause for worry as it has the warning "Enabling may cause some pages to behave unexpectedly". So I see why you were worried but there's a chance submitting your form with those blockers on would've worked.
But I agree at least a warning should be thrown up on ANY page with a form or any form with filled out fields that "The page is about to refresh & you will lose all data on this page. Are you sure you would like to continue?" after you toggle the "Trackers blocked" setting. I will see if we have a bug filed for this as a future enhancement.
But just keep in mind the main point of this browser is NOT to save any data about you to offer you maximum data privacy. So I can see why this situation was not thought of before. Since most people use Focus to search for things they would not care to save, the developers were not thinking about this kind of case at the time they built Focus. Thinking people would instead use the main Firefox for Android browser for more important work.
Would you mind sharing the url for the page where you were submitting a plea to your governor? I can add it in the bug to use as a testcase for the hopeful future feature that may add a dataloss warning to pages with entered form data. Giving people one last chance to consider not going thru with enabling or disabling blockers at that time.