Discussion on Textarea Backup | Userscripts.org

Archived Comments, replied by alexandroid @ Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:19:34 -0500

alexandroid — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:19:34 -0500

Is it possible to make it backup not only text areas but other parts of the forms, like edit fields and check boxes etc?

Archived Comments, replied by Good To Too @ Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:48:21 -0500

Good To Too — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:48:21 -0500

I gave up on trusting firefox forms a long time ago.. anything more than a few lines continues into a text editor and then back to the fox before submission

Archived Comments, replied by Chris4 @ Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:17:22 -0500

Chris4 — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:17:22 -0500

Thanks, trying it now.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,147266-page,4...

Archived Comments, replied by sizzlemctwizzle @ Wed, 26 Dec 2007 01:28:48 -0600

sizzlemctwizzle — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 01:28:48 -0600

Have you ever thought about using cookies to store the data instead. I might post a mod of this soon using cookies instead of storing values in about:config.

Archived Comments, replied by pogue @ Sat, 17 Nov 2007 00:53:25 -0600

pogue — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 00:53:25 -0600

Just thought I would mention that the Session Manager extension also allows the saving of unsubmitted text after a crash/exit, if it is configured to do so. Session Manager saves all of the data in text files under the user's profile, as opposed to saving them in the about:config section. It also allows the user to encrypt the saved sessions.

So, that might be something the script author may want to look to as an example for a different method of saving the data. Unfortunately, I am not familiar with creating GM scripts, so I don't know if this is applicable, but I just thought I would mention it.

white-txtarea-us.8.pogue25@spamgourmet.com

P.S. - If anyone has some hints on learning how to create GM scripts, please contact me and let me know, I would greatly appreciate it.

Archived Comments, replied by jerone @ Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:29:12 -0500

jerone — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:29:12 -0500

Maybe there should be a sort of expire time, were when passed, the entry's are emptied and deleted (to clean out about:config).

Have to say, very interesting script.

Archived Comments, replied by norz @ Tue, 25 Sep 2007 05:11:23 -0500

norz — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 05:11:23 -0500

Sorry for the triple posting, there was an error with the site and/or my browser.

Archived Comments, replied by norz @ Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:31:28 -0500

norz — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:31:28 -0500

The idea is nice, but -like others said-, it doesn't do a great job for privacy (see in about:config).
There are plenty of entries in there, even for posts that have been properly submitted.
There's already a textarea protection in Firefox in case of crashes, so I'm going to uninstall this script until this issue is not solved.

Archived Comments, replied by norz @ Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:30:19 -0500

norz — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:30:19 -0500

Archived Comments, replied by norz @ Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:28:30 -0500

norz — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:28:30 -0500

Archived Comments, replied by rowboat @ Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:10:49 -0500

rowboat — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:10:49 -0500

The issue that causes this script to fill in the hidden BCC field in gmail also (of course) fills in the hidden CC field. If you use this script, be sure to add the following URL's (with "*" wildcards) to your list of excluded sites - otherwise you'll end up CC'ing the last person you CC'd every time you compose a new message ;(

http://mail.google.com/*
https://mail.google.com/*

PS - in my opinion this is a major issue with use of this script. Can't it be altered to not fill in hidden textareas?

Archived Comments, replied by Michael Cronin @ Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:40:52 -0500

Michael Cronin — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:40:52 -0500

In reviewing my about:config file, I see that there are several textarea backup entries containing text that was backed up. If these backups are no longer necessary, can these entries be deleted? Is there a way to automate the entry deletion? (Might need another script for that, I guess.)

Archived Comments, replied by wind @ Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:52:44 -0500

wind — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:52:44 -0500

Hi
I made a little change to this script to make it work with utf-8. Just add two functions to it use them to replace the calls to GM_getValue and GM_setValue:

function getValue_utf8(myVariableName) {
var value = GM_getValue(myVariableName);
if (value.length ==0)
return value;
return decodeURI(value);
}

function setValue_utf8(myVariableName, myVariableValue) {
GM_setValue(myVariableName, encodeURI(myVariableValue));
}

Archived Comments, replied by simon! @ Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:12:45 -0500

simon! — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:12:45 -0500

Great Job!? Not quite (yes & no)

I deleted my backups, so I cant upload any testify of it, but who want to see his\her history web life... you might want to go to about:config and in the Filter field enter "greasemonkey", and you'll see a huge history archives of YOU in the web...

It would be great if I'll be able to get more (whoops I meant any) control on my backups!!!

Thanks.
Simon.

Great script I must to say! :)

Archived Comments, replied by Daniel Kimberlin @ Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:38:40 -0500

Daniel Kimberlin — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:38:40 -0500

Great Job!

Archived Comments, replied by senseBOP @ Mon, 16 Apr 2007 01:50:24 -0500

senseBOP — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 01:50:24 -0500

Your script is great, but because your lack of knowledge/attention, you didn't exclude Gmail properly. That caused many people, myself included, great troubles, as the BCC field, which is hidden by default, kept it's content and sent many mails to people it shouldn't have.

You need to change your excludes to this:
@exclude http://mail.google.com/*
@exclude https://mail.google.com/*

Hope you fix this soon, as it's a really important script to have.

You should also take gabedibble's suggestion, and add support to auto-updates: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/2296

Archived Comments, replied by gabedibble @ Sun, 08 Apr 2007 16:12:32 -0500

gabedibble — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 16:12:32 -0500

Author: Please check out User Script Updates - simply update the header of your script and your users will be able to receive change-notification when you improve this script

Archived Comments, replied by gabedibble @ Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:07:47 -0500

gabedibble — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:07:47 -0500

i had the same problem that Narsil did, but with the BCC field in gmail, which was worse as tons of ppl got an email that i didn't intend.

i've disabled this until there's an update.

great idea though ;)

Archived Comments, replied by angus @ Sat, 31 Mar 2007 23:03:06 -0500

angus — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 23:03:06 -0500

To: MacTed
I don't think it is that worse. First, it only backup the <textarea>, not <input />, so login/password shouldn't be included. And it backup only if you type something, leave it and don't submit, which shouldn't be frequent.

Leaving entries in about:config is a problem. I hope greasemonkey can fix it by removing entries if GM_setValue a empty string. The bottom line is I can remove it in pref.js, which takes 1 min, and a successfully backup can save me much more time than that.</textarea>

Archived Comments, replied by MacTed @ Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:19:16 -0500

MacTed — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:19:16 -0500

cool... until I noticed that it was creating one new Preference for EACH textarea it saved -- and while I can purge the saved value, I cannot purge the Preferences... (check your about:config)

worse than that, I keep dozens of tabs open at once -- often with many of them having textareas for username and/or password and/or comment entry -- and this seems to be pushing Firefox into a perpetual backup cycle, just slurping down the CPU and otherwise.

also, it's not purging all saved textareas when their parent forms are submitted. I don't know why, and I don't really want to figure out why -- I just want to get rid of the script and its lingering droppings.

I've uninstalled, and told Greasemonkey to delete associated preferences -- but they remain in about:config!

sometimes, an experimental script should not be released into the wild.

Archived Comments, replied by Narsil @ Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:36:52 -0500

Narsil — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:36:52 -0500

Hoho ! Thanks tangonerd !

I saw that in the "to" field of gmail and didn't understand why. Even posted on gmail user group and had the answer : delete your cookies !

I've disabled the script until update.

Archived Comments, replied by tangonerd @ Fri, 23 Mar 2007 23:10:17 -0500

tangonerd — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 23:10:17 -0500

dangerdangerwarningwillrobinson You might want to check your CC and BCC fields on every email after you install this script. In gmail,for instance, unless you click "add CC" or "add Bcc" and have a look "under the hood", you may not realize you're CCing and/or Bccing every ensuing email to the most recent address(es) you entered. Seems like a bug, but if you share a computer with someone you'd like to prank or spy on, could be a feature. BCC:boss,mom,nytimes,etc.

Archived Comments, replied by Mattie 2 @ Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:04:17 -0500

Mattie 2 — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:04:17 -0500

Works great in GreaseMonkey for Firefox! Great script.

But please see if you can fix this to work with IE (via Turnabout):
http://www.reifysoft.com/turnabout.php

You'd be addressing a major IE problem for those of us who have to use it once in a while. Currently Turnabout gives object doesn't exist errors in the console (with no real stack trace for me to tweak).

Some resources for tracking down issues can be found here:
http://www.reifysoft.com/developers.php

Archived Comments, replied by Henrik N @ Mon, 19 Mar 2007 04:43:48 -0500

Henrik N — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 04:43:48 -0500

Great script; thank you!

Archived Comments, replied by Jesse Andrews @ Tue, 16 Nov 2004 19:05:13 -0600

Jesse Andrews — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 19:05:13 -0600

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