Stopping Firefox's annoying form autofill

Posted At : August 10, 2007 1:10 PM | Posted By : Mark Drew
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When I am developing websites, especially forms, Firefox has this habit of confusing me and wasting a number of minutes of my time by trying to be useful. How you might ask? Well, if you are working on pre-populating a form, say setting options in a select dropdown to selected = "true", Firefox will come along and say something like: "Hey Mark, I saw you posted that form before! I am going to be really annoying and not select any! Even though you told me to!"

Well, there is a simple way to fix this behaviour, all you have to do is go to about:config and search for the Preference name "browser.formfill.enable" and set its value to false (by double clicking on it if you are on a Mac)

This should stop Firefox from pre-filling your forms whilst you are in development

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John Dowdell's Gravatar I wish I could edit the data held in the master file, rather than just turn it off. (It seems to collect info at random sometimes, even if I don't type it myself.)
# Posted By John Dowdell | 8/10/07 4:03 PM
Michael Brennan-White's Gravatar Another thing you can do, which I usually forget is the Shift-Delete Key combination which will remove the currently selected Form Fill selection.
# Posted By Michael Brennan-White | 8/10/07 4:30 PM
Mark Drew's Gravatar Thats a great tip!

Will try that next time, then again, I already changed it, no need to worry now :)

MD
# Posted By Mark Drew | 8/10/07 5:56 PM
David's Gravatar ...you can double click in on windows too to change its value.

(wish I had a Mac though...)
# Posted By David | 9/12/07 10:35 PM
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