Lost Information on the Form You Just Filled or the Email You Just Wrote? Recover it using Lazarus [Firefox Addon]

Posted by Anees Jafri ||

April 13, 2009 ||

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There have been times when we spend considerable amount of time on an online form, writing an email or editing content only to realize that the information filled has been lost.

The reason could be server timeouts, network issues, browser crashes, power failures, loosing connectivity and so on. In a situation like this we try retrieving the information but most often than not the back button, refresh, etc.. nothing seem to work. This is were a smart Firefox Plugin comes to rescue.

Lazarus is a simple solution to an annoying problem. It’s a free Firefox Add-on which makes a back-up of the data we spend hours in filling and have lost it for some reason. It stores this data and makes it available whenever required, if you need to re-fill a from.

Lazarus’s smart functionality certainly makes it one of the Best Firefox Extensions available out there..

Let’s have a look at how Lazarus works. It saves the data automatically when we are typing into the form and also saves the form when you hit the submit button.

If you’ve lost the information on the form and want to recover it, just go back to the same page, right-click in one of the fields in the form and select "Recover form" from the menu as shown below.

Forms can be saved in 2 different ways as mentioned below.

(A): Autosave: Saves the form while you are entering data into it.

(S): Submitted: The form was saved just before you submitted it to the server.

Lazarus saves all the form information inside a SQLite database ("lazarus.sqlite") located in your profile folder. This data is encrypted to ensure your privacy is protected.

By default your form information is kept indefinitely, but if you’re concerned about security you can have it removed after a specified time.

Lazarus works on *almost* all web forms and will save you from a lot of different server, browser, and connection problems that might cause you to lose your work. Two types of forms that Lazarus does not handle yet, 1) Richtext/WYSIYG text editors (eg TinyMCE), and 2) Dymamic (AJAX) forms, which function in different ways to ordinary webforms and are harder to capture. The new beta of Lazarus, soon to be released, handles those obscure types of "form" as well.

Click here to download Lazarus for Firefox

Tags: FireFox Extensions, Lazarus, Recover Information

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