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Stopping Firefox's annoying form autofill

August 10, 2007 ·

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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4 responses

  • 1 John Dowdell // Sep 22, 2008 at 4:13 PM

    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.)

  • 2 Michael Brennan-White // Sep 22, 2008 at 4:13 PM

    Another thing you can do, which I usually forget is the Shift-Delete Key combination which will remove the currently selected Form Fill selection.

  • 3 Mark Drew // Sep 22, 2008 at 4:13 PM

    Thats a great tip!

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

    MD

  • 4 David // Sep 22, 2008 at 4:13 PM

    ...you can double click in on windows too to change its value.

    (wish I had a Mac though...)