267703 - auto-compete doesn't work in other tabs than in the first one

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Form Manager, defect)

Description

[Timmy Bruckner]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1

auto-complete only works in my first tab, but all tabs remember passwords, its
just the auto-complete for name-, e-mail entry fields, etc., that doesn't work

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.open at least two tabs
2.switch to any tab, except to the first tab
3.try auto-complete

Actual Results:  
auto-complte doesn't work

Expected Results:  
auto-complete shopuld have worked

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

What extensions do you have installed, and do you still see the same behavior in
Safe Mode or in a new profile without any extensions?

Comment 2

[alanjstr]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107
Firefox/1.0

Comment 3

[ralph]

(In reply to comment #1)
> What extensions do you have installed, and do you still see the same behavior in
> Safe Mode or in a new profile without any extensions?

As stated before, ran on a virgin system - no previous FF, no extensions - and
got same problem.

Comment 4

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107
Firefox/1.0

unless you provide more info as for what might cause this behaviour, this bug
will get marked worksforme.

Comment 5

[ralph]

See bug 268145 for a reproducible prodedure that will always create the problem,
starting with a virgin install of firefox. 

The key to reproducing the problem is to start firefox with multiple tabs open:

1. Set up the home page as http://www.google.com/|http://www.google.com
2. Do 2 google searches such as test1 and test2
3. Create 2 usernames and passwords for a site - I've used both www.mail.com and
news.earthlink.net
4. Restart firefox
5. Go the second tab
6. Click in the google search string.   No drop down is shown.
7. Still in the second window, go to news.earthlink.net
8. Click in the email address field.  No drop down is shown.

Comment 6

[Carlos Coquet]

I have not tried this problem but this additional info MAY cast some light on
the issue.  I found that, in Tbird 1.0.6, if one modifies an address in the
address book, it does NOT become effective until one exists Tbird and comes back
in ?!?!?  (This is a reported bug.)  Tbird still uses the old address.  The auto
complete data might not be being updated between tabs.
	I also smell that some of the bugs I have experienced are HW related.  For
example, I have experienced weird behavior in machines with "marginal" physical
RAM, like 64 MB RAM.  I would encourage all submitters to always mention
processor, RAM, operating system, and system load (other applications running).

Comment 7

[Chris Davies]

I've a similar problem.

I've set google as my homepage. When I load firefox for the first time and start typing a word in the main google form, up will pop a list of words I've previously typed. No Problem.

However if I middle click the homepage button, although google will open in a new tab and the focus will appear to be in the main form, when I start typing a word that I've previously typed, no drop down menu will appear, i.e autocomplete won't work.

If I click anywhere if the page first and then click back into the form, autofill will start working again. Reloading the tab will also make the problem go away.

Never use to have this problem with firefox 1.07 or below. Ever since version 1.5 though, I've noticed the same problem.

Comment 8

[Andrew]

> However if I middle click the homepage button, although google will open in a
> new tab and the focus will appear to be in the main form, when I start typing a word that I've previously typed, no drop down menu will appear, i.e
> autocomplete won't work.

I can confirm this as an issue with a middle click on bookmark buttons (not from the bookmarks menu, but as a shortcut bar).

Comment 9

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

WFM based on previous comments. Should be working, if you can reproduce on a Firefox 3 build please reopen with a testcase.