309312 - form autocompletion overwrites fields retrieved from a database

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 112260

(Toolkit :: Form Manager, defect)

Description

[tech]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; fr; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050728
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; fr; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050728

on some pages, the form autocompletion overwrites fields whether they are empty
or not, even if autocomplete is off. It forbids to modify a form contain. the
workaround found at
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/index.php?title=How_to_Turn_Off_Form_Autocompletion&redirect=no
doesn't work

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open a form
2. enter the password for wallet
Actual Results:  
the form fields are filled with values used some times before, but even if I
change them and save the form the same values come back again and again

Expected Results:  
not fill the fields or ask me if I want to fill them

Comment 1

[Christian Schmidt]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 270558 ***

Comment 2

[Christian Schmidt]

Perhaps it's rather a duplicate of bug 198419 ...

Comment 3

[tech]

This bug can't be a duplicate og 270558, because 270558 is a mozilla-firefox bug and 309312 is on Mozilla Application Suite

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This is definitely a duplicate, though.

Comment 5

[Andrew Schultz]

==> Form manager

Comment 6

[tech]

(In reply to comment #4)
> This is definitely a duplicate, though.
> 

It's a duplicate of 112260 (mozilla bug) not of 270558 (firefox bug)