wrote a reply and then closed the tab without posting. No back button for that.

[rcjordan]

Title from EG's post elsewhere.

In G Chrome, IIRC, there's an extension to auto-save text area content.   Stumbled across it, but never tried.

[Drastic]

Undo close tabs retains field-entered text in FF.

[rcjordan]

Oooo! Lemme try that in GC. --->

Woo Hoo! Works with 'Reopen closed tab'

Good one, Dras!

[ergophobe]

Holy moly it does!

Never knew about that. It also goes back through your history so you can go back quite a ways.