Suggestion: Attempting to close the tab while editing a post should result in a pop-up warning that stuff may be lost

Question

Other sites do it, so why don't we?

Comments

Isn't it just common sense not to close the tab mid-edit?

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Accidents happen. If they didn't, why does almost every other site have stuff like that?

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I'm pretty sure either trachy/ninja asked this before but still, good suggestion.

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Bump filler

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Bump part 2

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Answer 1

This has been asked before, and will definitely be done at some point. I'm now the main developer for the Q2A software that we use here and this will get added in the next version, hopefully in the next few months.

Comments

Thanks.