204357 - clearing form field (e.g. with backspace) should cancel autocomplete

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Jeremy M. Dolan]

Form autocomplete seems to trigger after two characters are entered. Aside from
needing another way to trigger it (like IE has... down arrow or double click),
I've found a bug in the method it triggers with currently.

Go to a form you have lots of saved data for. Google will probably work.
Enter "t<backspace". Input line is now empty, but Phoenix shows you all saved
entries that start with t. (Works with any letter, of course).

This is actually a handy workaround to not being able to trigger autocomplete
any other way for a single letter.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Resummarizing, because in IE, backspacing to turn "fo" to "f" does not cancel
autocomplete, but backspacing to turn "f" into "" does cancel autocomplete.

Comment 2

[Lloyd Cotten]

Just wondering if this is still a problem for Linux users?  A similar bug, bug
212487, which addressed the issue on windows was fixed on 2003 07 12.  It WFM on
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla
Firebird/0.6.1.

Comment 3

[Jeremy M. Dolan]

aww, now there's no way to view all the data for a form. Yes, this is fixed now,
I'm assuming by the one-character-behind checkin.

Comment 4

[Lloyd Cotten]

OK maybe this can be marked as FIXED or WORKSFORME based upon comment 3?

Comment 5

[David P James]

Taking QA. Sorry for the bugspam

Comment 6

[Adam Roben]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030804 Mozilla
Firebird/0.6.1

Comment 7

[David P James]

Fixed, based on own experience, comment #3 and checkin for bug 212487

Comment 8

[David P James]

verified with another build (20030808)