Open Bug 279188 Opened 20 years ago Updated 2 years ago

View Saved Form Information

Categories

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Settings UI
Type:
enhancement

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People

(Reporter: colleen.beamer, Unassigned)

References

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Again, I looked for a similar bug/request, but couldn't find one.

Anyway, in the Preferences dialog, if you expand 'Saved Passwords", you can
click on a button to 'View Saved Passwords".  I think this options should be
available for 'Saved Form Information' as well.

I save my form information, but if you accidentally enter a wrong parameter,
that gets saved to and it shows when you click on a text box to enter
information.  For example, on one page, I enter a username, which is an e-mail
address.  I inadvertently entered a space before the username and now this
erroneous entry exists in my form history and I have not way of removing it
unless I clear the history, which I don't want to do.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click Edit --> Preferences --> Saved Form Information
2. No option to "View Saved Form Information"
3.
You can remove an item from form history by selecting it and then pressing
Shift+Delete.
Exactly where do you edit the form history?  There is a formhistory.dat file in
my .mozilla/firefox/6*******.default directory, but it's not something that I
can read, so I can't tell which entry is ^colleen.beamer@gmail.com (the ^
indicates a space) or colleen.beamer@gmail.com with not space in front of it. 
Other than this file, there doesn't seem to be a way to access form history.
(In reply to comment #1)
> You can remove an item from form history by selecting it and then pressing
> Shift+Delete.

That saved my day. I was about to submit an enhancement request for a form
information editor like the one for saved passwords.

Anyway, there's no way you learn how to delete an entry by Shift+Del without
being taught to do so by someone. How about adding a popup guide or a status bar
text to tell it?
(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > You can remove an item from form history by selecting it and then pressing
> > Shift+Delete.
> 
> That saved my day. I was about to submit an enhancement request for a form
> information editor like the one for saved passwords.
> 
> Anyway, there's no way you learn how to delete an entry by Shift+Del without
> being taught to do so by someone. How about adding a popup guide or a status bar
> text to tell it?

I still think a form information editor should be added like that for saved
passwords.  I couldn't get the Shift-Del to work.  formhistory.dat was not in
human readable form and if I selected the item that I wanted to delete from the
choices in the drop-down list in the form field, Shift-Del did nothing.



(In reply to comment #4)
> I still think a form information editor should be added like that for saved
> passwords.  I couldn't get the Shift-Del to work.  formhistory.dat was not in
> human readable form and if I selected the item that I wanted to delete from the
> choices in the drop-down list in the form field, Shift-Del did nothing.

Shift-Del worked for me (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050116 Firefox/1.0+). Maybe you should try a trunk build and a
clean profile? If not, you can submit another bug about Shift-Del not working...
(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #4)
> > I still think a form information editor should be added like that for saved
> > passwords.  I couldn't get the Shift-Del to work.  formhistory.dat was not in
> > human readable form and if I selected the item that I wanted to delete from the
> > choices in the drop-down list in the form field, Shift-Del did nothing.
> 
> Shift-Del worked for me (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
> rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050116 Firefox/1.0+). Maybe you should try a trunk build and a
> clean profile? If not, you can submit another bug about Shift-Del not working...

#1  I wouldn't think I needed a clean profile.  I just installed Firefox on this
computer ( a clean install from a stable release) not much more than a week ago.
#2  I am not using Windows, I am using Linux (Fedora Core 3, to be specific).


*** Bug 289829 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Changing Hardware and OS to All to reflect being a duplicate of Bug 289829.
OS: Linux → All
Hardware: PC → All
(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #4)
> > I still think a form information editor should be added like that for saved
> > passwords.  I couldn't get the Shift-Del to work.  formhistory.dat was not in
> > human readable form and if I selected the item that I wanted to delete from the
> > choices in the drop-down list in the form field, Shift-Del did nothing.
> 
> Shift-Del worked for me (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
> rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050116 Firefox/1.0+). Maybe you should try a trunk build and a
> clean profile? If not, you can submit another bug about Shift-Del not working...

Shift-Del is a windows feature
(In reply to comment #9)> Shift-Del is a windows feature
Yet another reason to have this in the UI as opposed to a keyboard shortcut.  This isn't going to turn 
into something like the signature war that was fought over Mozilla mail, is it?

After a couple of days/weeks/months, certain often used fields like fe google,
amazon, ... become filled with entries.
Shift-Delete works for me but I'd rather just sort them by name and delete them
with a single action. Not half an hour shift-deleting.
It would be similar to passwords and cookies.
Assignee: bugs → nobody
QA Contact: mconnor → preferences
*** Bug 313850 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
It would also be great if you could fill in default form information. Like what I could do in the Mozilla Suite.
*** Bug 298947 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 352716 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
While this is not implemented, you can use 

foundstone.com/resources/proddesc/dumpautocomplete.htm
(In reply to comment #16)
> While this is not implemented, you can use 
> 
> foundstone.com/resources/proddesc/dumpautocomplete.htm

Only if you are using Windows.  Please note that this bug affects all platforms.
Shift-Deete definitely does not work if you are using Linux on an iMac, since the key marked "Delete" is more like a "backspace" key.

Besides, this is something that needs to be managed on a larger scale, such as having an edit screen that shows ALL the defined fields available, rather than having to find each instance on numerous webpages.  I have invalid data in many places, and this invalid data is preventing the correct values from being saved into form history.
Severity: normal → S3
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