301412 - autofill suggest the text already typed.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 262206

(Toolkit :: Form Manager, defect)

Description

[cmorrisz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.9) Gecko/20050711 Firefox/1.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.9) Gecko/20050711 Firefox/1.0.5

Autofill/autocomplete will suggest the text ``12345'' after you have typed all
the chars ``12345''  It should make the suggestion after ``1234'' but once the
fifth char is typed it becomes redundant and should not be suggested.  This is
quite annoying when you want to fill a form with a single char, you type it and
autofill suggests it because you entered it before.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.fill a form with text and submit it
2.fill the sam from with the same text
3.auto fill will suggest the text you just typed
This is redundant.

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Reproducible with Deer Park a2, also mentioned in the first part of bug 267960.

Comment 2

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

This is a duplicate.
I know that the decision was to show the same result in the autocomplete popup.
I think it is a bad decision and it is indeed redundant (and not what IE6 is doing).

Comment 3

[Adam Guthrie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 217640 ***

Comment 4

[José Jeria]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 262206 ***