Lazarus: Firefox Form Recovery
We fill out forms all the time. Day in and day out. You log in to your favorite website using a login form, and you comment on forums and blogs using forms. As long as we have keyboards on this earth, we will be filling out forms. One of the problems with forms, however, is that too many things could happen that delete everything you typed in that form. Now, if this is a simple login form, it really doesn’t matter. However, I know you’ve typed up a long, cunning response to your friend’s ludicrous remark, only to find that a loud, bothersome advertisement pops up and crashes your browser, losing your entire response. Yeah, so the newer browsers recover your 14-soon-to-check-out-recently-stumbled-upon-tabs, but guess what wasn’t recovered? That’s right, your awesome cunning response!
Right-clicking on any form brings this menu.
One of the things I noticed after installing this Firefox add-on was that Lazarus even knew forms I had typed in before I even installed the add-on. So if you just lost a form today, install Lazarus and you might be able to recover it. You can access Lazarus by right clicking on any text form, or by clicking on it’s icon in the status bar of Firefox. Another feature of Lazarus could be called “Search”. This, obviously, allows you to search any fields that you typed in the past, and recover the text.
Searching Lazarus after clicking on it's status bar icon.
Just a small clarification.
> One of the things I noticed after installing this Firefox add-on was that Lazarus
> even knew forms I had typed in before I even installed the add-on.
Unfortunately Lazarus is unable to recover any forms you may have written before it was installed. However, once installed, it should encrypt and save everything you type from then on.
Firefox has some built in session recovery and will recover some forms automatically in the case of a browser crash or restart. These forms should be automatically filled in when the browser is successfully restarted. It may have been this that restored your data.