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+<li><a href="/thought/recover-lost-text-by-coredumping-firefox.html">recover lost text by coredumping firefox</a></li>
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+recover lost text by coredumping firefox
+              2023-10-20
+
+sometimes websites fuck up and erase your text.
+
+websites either glitch, crash, freeze, or are just designed
+extremely poorly, and your 5+ minutes of writing effort
+have disappeared into the æthernet. the usual ctrl+z doesn't
+work - either does the back button. your text is gone.
+
+it often feels like you might never be capable
+of recapturing that writing, even if you try
+to re-think and re-write it.
+
+a tangible loss - some magic that's gone forever.
+
+or sometimes it's just a really fucking annoying survey
+question that you answered, but you didn't even really want
+to do the survey, but you had already started so you're not
+backing out now, and also you just HAD to know which hogwarts
+familiar you were, even though everyone knows you're going to be
+the fucking frog that ron owns, but now the fucking browser fucked
+up, or maybe it was the website, i don't know, but my text is
+god damned gone forever, and i hate this earth, and now i shall
+throw my keyboard out the nearest window.
+
+this type of data loss happens to me far too often, and
+when it does, my internal reality turns into a hellscape.
+
+this also happens to yngmar[0], and he reacts appropriately:
+
+- Yell "Fuck you and your piece of shit website".
+- Close tab
+- Do some woodworking, sew clothes, plant trees,
+  grow crops, help refugees, etc.
+
+
+i recently discovered this little trick to
+rescue any text that was recently typed into
+firefox.
+
+coredumping might seem unreliable, but it has
+never failed me before.
+
+1. find the firefox pid
+
+  pgrep -l firefox
+
+2. attach gdb to firefox and dump its core
+
+  sudo gdb -p <pid>
+
+3. find your lost text in the coredump
+
+  strings firefox.dump | grep 'phrase-from-your-text'
+
+4. disconnect gbd
+
+  detach # this detach prevents firefox from dying
+         # when you type "exit"
+  exit
+
+5. remove coredump
+
+  rm firefox.dump
+
+and that's it! you recovered your text.
+
+shoutout to klardotsh[1] for inspiring me to post this.
+
+love,
+
+
+j3s
+
+
+[0]: https://social.tchncs.de/@yngmar/111269159153831442
+[1]: https://merveilles.town/@klardotsh