I realize it's still annoying but you can Ctrl-Shift-T to get a tab back, usually with the partially-filled form intact.

I've used Lazarus (for Firefox) to good effect for recovering lost forms: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/lazarus-form-...

Or use vimperator (or its replacement whose name escapes me). 'd' deletes a tab (as will C-w), 'u' "undeletes" it.

History made marvelously easy. This alone sold me on the extension.

Are you perhaps referring to Pentadactyl[1]? I'm a huge fan of it.

[1] http://5digits.org/help/pentadactyl/

Thanks, yes. I'd seen it referenced here, haven't used it.

Vimperator still works on my somewhat age'd 14.0 FF.

M-Q to reformat a paragraph in emacs is even worse...

The broken bindings for ^W and ^U have driven me crazy enough to create a website dedicated to try to document how to fix broken software to properly handle them:

http://unix-kb.cat-v.org/

Note that this are not vi(m) keybidnings, they are classic Unix keybindings that should work on any Unix application. (They even work in Plan 9!)

When you see me half ask a question on IRC then quit, or quit repeatedly. ^^^ Switching context between vim & xchat & killing tabs. See also: jjjkkjkkgg

In irssi, ctrl+w does actually delete a word (and ctrl+u does delete the line)