non-login field is autofilled with login name
I have a text input box that is getting filled with my login name. It hasn't started doing this until the last week or two. I believe FF has updated during that time period. I'm not sure if any extensions have but no new ones have been added.
It's on a forum where you enter someone else's login name to send them a private message. Problem is that my login name is getting put in there and I have to manually erase the field every time I want to post.
I've done an inspect on it and it says "input#whispername.WhisperAutoCompleteInput" and in the box below <input id=WhisperUsername" class="Whisper AutoCOmpleteInput" name="WhisperUsername" type="text" value="" maxlength="20" autocomplete="off">
So I'd like to go back to the previous behavior of not autofilling.
Isisombululo esikhethiwe
These approaches seem to work. The website in question in one I visit all the time. Now I just have to see if there are side effects at other websites in how things are filled and if it's worth the annoyance or not. Thanks for you assistance.
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https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/automatically-fill-address-and-credit-cards https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/control-whether-firefox-automatically-fills-forms
That could be the form filler built into Firefox. Click in the field, enter a character or two and STOP ! Using the arrow keys, highlight an unwanted entry. Then press Shift + Delete
Repeat as needed.
Tried this and it didn't work. FWIW, the field is already filled in when the page loads. If the fields in manually deleted, the autofill option appear and it says my login name with "from this website" and "view saved logins"
bizbizbiz said
FWIW, the field is already filled in when the page loads. If the fields in manually deleted, the autofill option appear and it says my login name with "from this website" and "view saved logins"
I guess the form looks like the site's login form to Firefox. As a test, can you set Firefox not to fill in login forms automatically. Just uncheck the box here on the Settings page:
Firefox should still open a drop-down when you enter the field so you can fill it when you want to.
Note that there is also signon.autofillForms.autocompleteOff on the about:config page that you can possibly set to false.
This could be the result of Firefox trying to detect a username only login form where the name and password are on different pages and thus is filling a saved username.
- signon.usernameOnlyForm.enabled
You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can click the button to "Accept the Risk and Continue".
Isisombululo Esikhethiwe
These approaches seem to work. The website in question in one I visit all the time. Now I just have to see if there are side effects at other websites in how things are filled and if it's worth the annoyance or not. Thanks for you assistance.