293468 - Forms autofill frequently fails to recognize previously-used form types; doesn't autofill

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Toolkit :: Form Manager, defect)

Description

[crmcneill]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

Half.com page is one example of many in which Firefox forms manager does not
provide autofill options for commonly-used form entries, despite those having
been used many times. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to any forms page with the common address & contact info form fields
2. Click on any field
3.

Actual Results:  
No autofill response, or inconsistent response.
(reponse on some of the standard fields but not others)

Expected Results:  
Autofill drop-down for all common field elements used numerous times previously:
name, street address, city, zip, phone.

If there's one thing about I.E. that should be emulated, it's I.E.'s way of
handling forms autofill.  Actual auto-completion *in the field itself*, with
"untyped portion" still hilited, is more efficient than drop-down of options.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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