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On many webpages, an answer is popping up while I complete a field. I do not want Firefox remembering what I type after I leave a page. How can I stop it?

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For example: I was filling out a form on a website I had never been to before, which requested my e-mail address. After I had typed a few characters, a floating box appeared just below the form's field, containing one of my e-addresses (similar to but not the one I was inputting). I do not want Firefox to keep enough knowledge to allow other people to pretend to be me (even on my home computer).

For example: I was filling out a form on a website I had never been to before, which requested my e-mail address. After I had typed a few characters, a floating box appeared just below the form's field, containing one of my e-addresses (similar to but not the one I was inputting). I do not want Firefox to keep enough knowledge to allow other people to pretend to be me (even on my home computer).

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Do the following:

  1. Open the Firefox options
  2. Click on the Privacy tab
  3. Change the History settings to Use Custom Settings...
  4. Uncheck the Remember Search and Form Data option
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Chosen Solution

Do the following:

  1. Open the Firefox options
  2. Click on the Privacy tab
  3. Change the History settings to Use Custom Settings...
  4. Uncheck the Remember Search and Form Data option
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Thanks, Whiz. Perfect. I missed the "custom" option in the drop-down box. Now that I see the expanded "menu", I had that setting for the past few years. Can't imagine how it got reset, but it's fixed now.

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Note that saved form data isn't site specific in Firefox, but tied to the name/id of the input field.