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How to destroy half an hour's work in a browser form...

The illustration shows exactly how it happened. You have a tab open, and another tab has info which you want to cut. Then you want to paste it back into this tab. So you click on this tab and... PFFFFFF!!

Those who remember the very first Apple ][ machines back in the 1970s may recall that it had, roughly where you'd expect an "Esc" key, a small, innocent button called "RESET". It did just that.

Cries of pain naturally followed; and an interlock system was created to ensure you couldn't do it by mistake.

Someone has to find a similar way of making sure that in a browser, you only click on those little "close tab" buttons when you want to close the tab.

My suggestion: ensure that if the current tab has focus, and only then, will a single click work to close that tab. Otherwise, if you might be switching to the tab, it should require a second click.

Yes, I did just lose a lot of work...