What is wrong with "New Post" button on the toolbar?

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  pcchynoweth · Member · Dec 1, 2012 at 12:29 am

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  This is a reproducible error, and it cost me 1.5 hours of writing.

  Here is what happens:

  Click “New Post” on the Tool Bar.
  Click on “Text”
  Add a title in the title area and some text in the body area.
  Click “Publish Post”.
  The post gets published, but when you go to look at it, the title is there and the word count is zero.

  I am using Chrome 18.0.1025.162 and Ubuntu Linux (AMD64) 12.10.

  (it also happens with Chromium)

  This seems like a bug. As I mentioned it is reproducible. I can’t find it as a bug.

  I think I’ve had problems with “New Post” on other occasions. I should just stop using it.

  By the way, when I lost the 1.5 hours of writing, the revisions and some manual saves were happening all along, but all the recorded revisions were all also zero word counts. Gone, gone, gone and seemingly no way to recover what I wrote.

  Help!

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  timethief · Member · Dec 1, 2012 at 5:41 pm

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  I am using Chrome 18.0.1025.162 and Ubuntu Linux (AMD64) 12.10.
  (it also happens with Chromium)

  If you are not running one of the browsers and versions listed at http://browsehappy.com/ please try upgrading or switching first.

  If you are running one of the browsers and versions listed at http://browsehappy.com please do these four things:

  1. Try clearing your browser’s cache: http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=32050

  2. Make sure that you have third-party cookies enabled: http://en.support.wordpress.com/third-party-cookies/

  3. Try with all browser extensions or add-ons temporarily disabled.

  4. Try enabling HTTPS: http://en.support.wordpress.com/https/

  If it’s still happening, let us know which browser (and version of it) you’re using and post any error reports you get.