I've just spent 15 minutes writing a reasonably detailed answer to a question on CSS. I scroll down to click post and I get a damn access violation error that crashes the browser and kills my answer. 15 minutes absolutely wasted.
So anyway I'm thinking can we not have some opt-in javascript code that simply saves the currently worked on answer to a cookie every 30 seconds such that if the browser crashes or "whatever" we can restart the browser and retrieve the answer we've worked on?
I've learned to 'copy' a lot when making answers on these sites (and on most sites for that matter).
Write your answer in an external editor, and then paste when you're done.
I highly recommend using the "It's All Text!" addon for firefox, which takes care of all the minutiae for you automatically. Just click on the little "edit" button that appears by textboxes, and your favourite editor will be invoked.
I started using this plugin after I hit ^W too many times and lost important content (not for SO, but for work)... I am a unix user primarily, so to me ^W means "go back a word", not "close window".
