252996 - yahoo.com - Yahoo! Mail autocomplete doesnt work in Mozilla / Firefox (ActiveX)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[dave]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608 WebWasher 3.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608 WebWasher 3.3

Yahoo! has a new feature to autocomplete the recipient's email address when
sending mails based on the content of your Yahoo address book. This uses an
ActiveX control, so doesnt work with Mozilla / Firefox (Or any other non-IE
browser presumably)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to mail.yahoo.com
2. Click 'Compose'
3. With IE, you'll see the download autocomplete option on the right. You dont
see this option in Mozilla



Expected Results:  
This isn't 1998. Yahoo! should implement its Web sites using standards that off
cross platform / browser support

Comment 1

[Bogdan Stroe]

-> NEW

Comment 2

[dave]

This seems to work fine in Firefox now. No need to download anything. As you
type in the To: field a drop down lists likely email addresses (from your
address book presumably)