2007294 - Firefox form population doesn't work right if your last name has a space in it.

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Toolkit :: Form Autofill, defect, P3)

Description

[Peter da Silva]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:146.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/146.0

Steps to reproduce:

Start entering my email address in a form. Firefox offers me some saved items to use.

Actual results:

It filled out the "last name" field with "Silva"

Expected results:

It should fill out the "last name" field with "da Silva"

Comment 1

[Peter da Silva]

I mean, it's not that hard to type in the "da " part. But it gets old, you know.

Reference: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/

Comment 2

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Comment 3

[Peter da Silva]

This is also a problem for people who have two first names - effectively a space in their first name.

Apparently internally Firefox is just storing a single name field and ignoring the fact that it was sourced from separate first and last name fields.

Comment 4

[Dimi Lee [:dimi]]

"da" is not in the name prefix list, that is why we cannot split the name correctly.

We should either add the prefix to the list or figure out a better way to improve our name split algorithm

Comment 5

[Peter da Silva]

The name-split algorithm is a red herring.

When a name is filled out in a form that has separate first and last name fields, you should preserve that information and not internally merge and re-split the name.

Comment 6

[Peter da Silva]

Also " Status: UNCONFIRMED"? Really?