Closed Bug 157746 Opened 23 years ago Closed 23 years ago

Saved Form data doesn't get used in forms

Categories

(Toolkit :: Form Manager, defect)

PowerPC
macOS
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

VERIFIED INVALID

People

(Reporter: vlbrown, Assigned: morse)

Details

This is related to 156007 but isn't a duplicate; I get prompted (oh do I get prompted. I seem to get prompted constantly.) I am so tired of being prompted that I have unchecked "Save form data from web pages when completing forms". But none of the form data I have saved or set ever gets used. I have oodles of saved form data and I still fill in my name, email, address... by hand in every form. IE works, so I think I know what to expect (and I've really gotten used to this working, snce I use IE at home :-) It shouldn't be necessary to set a master password to get forms autofill to work.If I am doing something wrong, there is a bug in the preferences interface smewhere 'cause don't see a box to check to say "use the form data in the forms". Wazzup? Bug or "feature"?
Vicki, please provide the Build ID you're using. Can you reproduce this problem using a new Mozilla user profile?
Build ID: 2002061014
Yes I could reproduce it with a new profile. - I created a new profle - I entered Forms Manager in the prefs for that profile - I inserted my first (Vicki) and last (Brown) name and my email address (vlb@cfcl.com) in the respective places - I clicked OK - I surfed to a Web pages with a form http://www.macperl.org/mpo/forms/subscribe.html - In the email address box on the form I typed vl - Nothing happend. Mozilla did not fill in 'vlb@cfcl.com'. IE would have done so. That is the behaviour I expect.
Vicki, thanks for the precise steps. That kind of cogent information helps bugs get quick analysis and action. Unfortuntely, trying to reproduce them caused bug 158167 for me. Will try again later.
Hmmm. I may have been mistaken. I just downloaded 1.1b and found the Fill in Form menu item. I could wish it had a hotkey. It's possible this worked before. This wasn't the interface I expected; I expected more along the lines of the IE "WYSIWYG" auto-fill. Type a few non-ambiguous letters and poof, there's the fill-in-text. I would like to convert this to a feature request for (at least an optino) to have Mozilla do auto-fill the way IE does. I have gotten very spoiled by being able to type vl and have IE supply vlb@cfcl.com in any form field (especially because that's often my "user name" on many login forms. How do I convert this to a feature request?
You don't convert it. YOu close this one out as invalid and open a new report.
Closing as invalid and opening new bug for feature request
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Core → Toolkit
QA Contact: tpreston → form.manager
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