1328186 - Firefox does not "automatically fill forms"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 990176

(Toolkit :: Form Manager, enhancement)

Description

[Dan Jacobson]

Firefox does not "automatically fill forms".
One needs to click on each field and select from the remembered choices,
even if there is only one remembered choice.
Yes there are add-ons... but one must start all over with them.
It would be nice if Firefox would just fill in the values for us somehow without needing all that clicking. Maybe one click somewhere to tell Firefox "OK, fill them all in. Even the ones off the bottom of the screen where I might not notice them."

Comment 1

[Dan Jacobson]

I am filling out (several times a week)
http://www.traffic.taichung.gov.tw/mail/index.asp?Parser=99,9,68,66
and when I right click on a field, it appears this form is considered loaded with 'Saved Login' fields.

Comment 2

[Dan Jacobson]

The first three fields have to be confirm-clicked by me each time. The fourth and fifth are nicely prefilled in.
The Inspector Console warns
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Insecure_passwords
so maybe http vs. https is playing a part.
But why does it think the first three fields are passwords?

Second field:
      <tr>
        <th bgcolor="#C5DCDA" class="table_title"><label for="tel"><span class="piont">*</span>電　　話：</label></th>
        <td bgcolor="#EDF0F1"><input name="tel" type="text" class="text_word" id="tel" value="" /> 
        <span class="brown">請勿使用04-8888888 格式 04888888</span></td>
      </tr>

Fourth field:

   <tr>
        <th bgcolor="#C5DCDA" class="table_title"><label for="address">住　　址：</label></th>
        <td bgcolor="#EDF0F1"><input name="address" type="text" class="text_word" id="address" value="" /></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>

Comment 3

[Dan Jacobson]

The sixth is for confirming passwords so I won't be that insistent about it.
The rest are supposed to be different for each submission, so never mind them.

Comment 4

[Dan Jacobson]

(For your reference. The (what I above call the) first (visible) is cname)
$ mech-dump http://www.traffic.taichung.gov.tw/mail/index.asp?Parser=99,9,68,66
Wide character in print at /usr/share/perl5/WWW/Mechanize.pm line 1195.
POST http://www.traffic.taichung.gov.tw/mail/index.asp?Parser=99,9,68,66&ss=s (multipart/form-data) [form1]
  token_cs=76d3873af1b7e371cffced5375fed83811a33968c (hidden readonly)
  cname=                         (text)
  tel=                           (text)
  email=                         (text)
  address=                       (text)
  password=                      (password)
  chk_password=                  (password)
  title=                         (text)
  content=                       (textarea)
  files=                         (file)
  chkcode=                       (text)
  submit=確定送出                    (submit)
  button2=清除重寫                   (button)