Bug#444499: field completion / suggestion often gets in the way

Mike Hommey mh at glandium.org
Sun Jul 31 19:52:58 UTC 2011


On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 03:37:32PM +0100, Frederik Eaton wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 01:54:37PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 02:12:30PM +0000, Frederik Eaton wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 08:48:21AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:57:02PM +0100, Frederik Eaton wrote:
> > > > > Thanks for the response. That's a very reasonable misunderstanding -
> > > > > Google has added completion to its search box since this bug was filed
> > > > > two years ago, and is therefore no longer a good way to reproduce the
> > > > > bug.
> > > > > 
> > > > > ***
> > > > > 
> > > > > I can still reproduce the bug in a plain HTML text input box under
> > > > > 3.0.15. If you need an example of a plain HTML text input box, there
> > > > > is probably a more canonical one but ... here:
> > > > > http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/jwb/wwwjdic?1C/
> > > > 
> > > > This gets more understandable, but for me (but under 3.5.6) the
> > > > completion thing is not as annoying as you describe it. Could you give a
> > > > try to the iceweasel version from squeeze ?
> > > 
> > > I'm sorry for the long delay in replying. I tried version 3.5.8 and
> > > still found the same problems. Can you perhaps be more specific about
> > > what you think is fixed?
> > 
> > How about version 5.0 that you can either get from unstable or
> > http://mozilla.debian.net/ ?
> 
> I am using Ubuntu on my laptop now... Is there a recommended way to
> install this package on Ubuntu?

You can check Ubuntu's firefox, there's not many reasons the behaviour
with html form input completion would be different.

Cheers,

Mike





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