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"Are you sure?" popup when closing a page
When I close a window while writing an answer, it closes immediately without any popup.
This has resulted in me losing a few answers while writing them midway.
The feature I'm asking for is an "Are you sure you want to close/navigate off this page?" popup whenever there's text in an answer field.
1 answer
I accidentally closed a tab with a question and lost some changes so I do feel your pain.
However, if we are going to fire an event on window exit I would much rather it be saving the draft in its current state.
That would avoid the popup and save your answer which should solve the problem.
2 comments
+1, Yes, this makes a lot of sense.
How did the auto-save not work for you? At least with the browser I use (Edge on Win10), it seems to save within a second or two of making a change. That means I can't lose more than a couple seconds of work if I suddenly closed the window by mistake. What happened in your case to defeat this mechanism?
9 comments
Does the (IMO rather overzealous) autosave not work for you? — Canina 5 months ago
Web browsers often handle this or can get configured to handle it. — Lundin 5 months ago
Ok, I'll check out how to configure my browser. — Razetime 5 months ago
We don't need more nannyware. — Olin Lathrop 5 months ago
This isn't "configure the web browser". Probably could be done strictly in the browser by an extension which would be supremely annoying. Normally it is done by a drop of Javascript as part of the page. Trivial to add. Useful to the 50% of users who it helps. Annoying to the 50% of users who can't stand it. I am more often in the "can't stand it" side, though not always. — manassehkatz 5 months ago