370847 - Using nicknames in form filling (Give user selective control over what Address Book card data is used)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Camino Graveyard :: OS Integration, enhancement)

Description

[Kristen Symonds]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20060601 Firefox/2.0 (Ubuntu-edgy)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20060601 Firefox/2.0 (Ubuntu-edgy)

I think it would be good if you could use nicknames in Camino's form filling, or even better, to be able to specify which of your info is given out.
Reasons: I don't give my full name to every site on the net, nor my personal email address. I also don't want to fill out my screen name, email and home page every time I comment on a blog (rather often).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 2

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Er, no offence, but if you don't want to automatically fill in everything, why would you be using auto-fill in the first place? Are there situations in which you *do* need to auto-fill such information as screen name and home page? (If not, you can avoid filling these simply by not filling them in on your Address Book card.)

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Comment 3

[Kristen Symonds]

I do want to fill in all the information on a form, it's very rare that I actually have to fill out my full name in a form since the most common form I use is commenting on blogs (most of the forums et that I sign up to don't require a full name either). After going from Firefox to Camino the most obvious annoyance is having to type in my screen name, email and URL every time I write a comment. Another way to do this would be to make a separate card with screen name, email and homepage but then Camino seems to only use the "Me" card.

Comment 4

[Stuart Morgan]

We should definitely consider allowing people to specify a different card if there's a reasonable way to do that; it would let people control a lot of things about how form-fill works.

Comment 5

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Yeah, that sounds like a good idea (and a fairly practical way to implement something like this, which could otherwise be really messy).

Comment 6

[froodian (Ian Leue)]

Confirming to consider an option for giving users more control here.  I personally support something like comment 4.  FWIW, we get a fair amount of feedback requesting something similar to this.

Comment 7

[Gordon P. Hemsley [:GPHemsley]]

This bug has been buried in the graveyard and has not been updated in over 5 years. It is probably safe to assume that it will never be fixed, so resolving as WONTFIX.

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