I've noticed the same with web-able apps, you spend time typing-up some missive and then it freezes and refreshing the page loses it all. Could linux write everything to a file every 30 seconds. A bit like a keylogger, only you know it is there.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/227948/Firefox.html
From Tom's Hardware:
"Lazarus: Form Recovery is a free downloadable Add-On for the Firefox web browser that automatically saves everything you type into forms of web pages you visit.
With Lazarus: Form Recovery, you will never lose what you write after a crash the browser or other technical problems. In the case when a problem, simply right click and select "recover form" to retrieve data previously typed."
However, that was for web forms, not an email client or other applications.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/form-history-...
yes, but probably not a good idea?