304881 - cannot easily remove wrong form data

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 154583

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Tom Schneider]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040919
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040919

My form data is filling up with lots of irrelevant entries.
Deleting them is torture.
There needs to be a way to remove things and edit them quickly
and efficiently.
I could not locate files that are written out for the form data.  Evidently
it is coded.  This means that I cannot use vi or vim to just fix
the problem directly.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.enter lots of form data
2.try to remove 20 form data items


Actual Results:  
To delete an item from the form data requires going to that item and
backspacing.  Then it still is listed, but the next time it is gone.
(This is nasty in it self because one thinks it is there still).
Every time one says OK, the window goes away and one has to start over again.

Expected Results:  
Ideally I should be able to open my favorite editor (vi or vim or emacs
for others) to edit the form data directly and efficiently.  But even a stupid
web page editor would be better than this poorly thought out design.

The basic problem is that the form information gets crusted up with irrelevant
junk over time and it is too much work to get rid of it.  The editing features
are poor.

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

(In reply to comment #0)
> I could not locate files that are written out for the form data.
It's a .w file in your profile, see
http://www.mozilla.org/start/1.5/faq/profile.html#backup and
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.0/#files.

Related to/duplicate of Core bug 154583?

Comment 2

[Tom Schneider]

(In reply to comment #1)

> > I could not locate files that are written out for the form data.
> It's a .w file in your profile, see
> http://www.mozilla.org/start/1.5/faq/profile.html#backup and
> http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.0/#files.

Ok, I found those.  But the file is encoded somehow and the documents
don't mention this and don't say how to prevent it.  Why should it be
encoded?  It's in my files!  Security schmurity, this is Unix.

> Related to/duplicate of Core bug 154583?

Yes.  Why has this hung around for three years?  It is a big annoyance,
as noted in bug 154583.  It makes the form torture to use sometimes.

Comment 3

[Adam Guthrie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 154583 ***