As to the script problem, what is the whole error message?

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The new Firefox 47 requires that all extensions be 'signed' by Moilla. You have to contact the add-on's support site, or find another that works.

For Form History Control (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/ad.../form-history-control/), is the Enable button grayed out? What I mean is on the Add-ons page, either:

• Ctrl+Shift+a (Mac: Command+Shift+a)
• "3-bar" menu button (or Tools menu) > Add-ons

In the left column, click Extensions. Then check the bottom of the list on the right. Can it be re-enabled?

In case it wasn't covered in the articles/threads you reviewed, another common cause of unresponsive script errors on Windows 7 is the protected mode feature of the Flash player plugin. That feature has security benefits, but seems to have serious compatibility issues on some systems. You can disable it using the Add-ons page. Either:

• Ctrl+Shift+a
• "3-bar" menu button (or Tools menu) > Add-ons

In the left column, click Plugins. On the right side, find "Shockwave Flash" and click the More link. Then uncheck the box for "Enable Adobe Flash protected mode" and try that for a day to see whether it helps.

Regarding Asian languages, some sites will be responding to your specified language headers, but others that geo-target their content will be looking at your IP address. I don't know whether there is a solution to that... when you tell the site your preference, it probably is stored in a cookie, and those are subject to being cleared.

The more times that happens the more I realize what huge disservice is routinely paid to the user + how this type of 'User Hostility' + 'Counter-Convenience' (the sort I've just suffered) serves as clear indication there are apparently higher priorities than serving the user as efficiently + completely as possible. How is it that it's not just feasible, but actually painfully easy, to have all of the user's textual input, the same as I'm writing here + now, to have every word wiped out, deleted, without any warning, or confirmation, of any description, nothing! The idea that a mis-hit key when typing can result in losing all your 'work', does result in losing all your work, I find staggering, almost beyond belief! Let's say you accidentally open a new tab, when you return everything is restored except the only thing you would wish for, the one, sole thing of any value above all else, gone, because as it turns out, in reality, it's the only thing seen as having no value whatsoever, like junk, + it's treated accordingly, thrown away never to be seen again. How this could ever happen without any input from the user astounds me, text within a text field offed without a moments notice, most browsers kick into full red alert if you try to close out a couple of tabs, like that's a big deal?! Yet wiping out a whole load of text, irretrievably so*, is no cause for concern, no alarm bells, nothing, it just happens quietly + without fanfare. So, I wrote thanking you both for your replies + saying I'll get back to you when I've followed your instruction, which I will. If you haven't guessed, somewhere along the line I mis-hit something, or other, + paid an unacceptably high price for what may well be oafish clumsiness but the punishment far outweighs the crime, it's draconian! I don't suppose my little rant above belongs in your department, which does beg the question, why did you send it there? Maybe you know where it might be a better fit + perhaps could forward it, better still, if you know the Chief, the Don Corleone, perhaps you could forward it to him? I'd like to make him an offer......................

I'd better go I'm getting nervous, one false move + it's curtains! I appreciate your time taken to reply, yours gratefully,

 SiCo 

• I guess it's forensically possible, is there more of an 'everyman' retrieval method?

I can't tell what happened. ??

If you open a new tab (Ctrl+t) then your current tab is still open, hidden by the new tab. You can switch tabs to access the one you were working in, or close that new tab.

If you open a new window (Ctrl+n), that window will appear in front of your current window, and when you close it or minimize it, you will see the one you were working in before.

If you close the current tab (e.g., Ctrl+w), if it is the only tab in the window, the window will close, otherwise the one tab will close. You could try using the History menu to restore the closed window/tab, as the case may be.

However, if the page does not allow caching, then it may well reload from scratch empty of your input. Some websites protect against this using a script that pops up a message asking whether you want to leave the page. It's an approach that other sites do not use, presumably to avoid annoying their users. (Since some sites abuse this method, there also are settings and add-ons that block it, which unfortunately are not limited to bad sites.)

If you reload the current tab (Ctrl+r), most likely the result will be the same as the close/re-open scenario.

If you go "Back" (for example, using the Backspace key when outside the editing area), then going forward to where you just were may have results similar to the close/re-open scenario.

What you would never want to do when losing a page is to reload it fresh from the address bar, bookmark, or search engine. You need to try one of the other methods first to have any chance at tapping into Firefox's session/back-forward history.

One things I've noticed on machines with touch pads is that users sometimes accidentally select their text with their palm and then their text is replaced by the next character they type. The only recovery is "undo" which is available from:

• Ctrl+z keyword shortcut
• Right-click > Undo
• (menu bar) Edit > Undo

Those are for Windows and match how most Windows applications work.

Sorry about that last post, I don't handle loss very well, despite the frequent exposure. I've enjoyed an unusual degree of success in straightening things out, pretty much worked it all out by myself by simply applying logic + critical thinking but I am, of course, lying!!! Worked it out myself, it took me a good while to diagnose I hadn't plugged it into the power, one time, it was the sound advice I received here that was the ticket for which I'm here to thank all concerned, you know who you are. They should name bridges, + such like, after you, the jscher2000 Bridge, is as good as London Bridge, imaginations weren't taxed to near breaking points to come up with that. As quick as things get sorted, other things break, it's a revolving door, I'm thinking I should just make this my homepage + be done with it!! Disabling 'Flash Protected', by the way, that was some of your finest work, given to wild exaggeration as I certainly am, I'd call it genius, a word I don't throw around without measured consideration, not often, anyway!

     The Great Text Swindle, in true IT fashion , I hit upon a 'shimmy' that sidesteps the issue, rather than solves the problem, which I'm told goes right to the darkest recesses of M'oft, but I'm just one man + I've ridden the tiger's back, + will again, it's a marathon, not a sprint.......   Writing your waffle, in my case, in your text editor of choice, Sublime Text, in my case, + then pasting it to your desired  location, is without doubt the way to go, cardiologically speaking for one, I need to limit the sort of traumatic event losing text can prove to be, it's the injustice of it that gets me.
     Thanks again for your input, I couldn't do it by myself, not while I'm awake........

      SiCo

SiCo said

Writing your waffle, in my case, in your text editor of choice, Sublime Text, in my case, + then pasting it to your desired location, is without doubt the way to go, cardiologically speaking for one, I need to limit the sort of traumatic event losing text can prove to be, it's the injustice of it that gets me.

That's safest from two perspectives: minimizing the risk of losing your work, and also of prematurely submitting your writing before you've given it the final polish.

I'm seriously considering using a chunk of slate + a bit of chalk, from now on, I'd no doubt have more of a clue + it's probably more "me" if I'm honest. Would I still be covered for support, should any issues arise?