March 24, 2005

Firefox fixes

Does Firefox's autofill feature annoy you? When you type in the first letter of a field in a form does it call up memories of past typos? Thanks to Kathy in Kevin Drum's comments, there's a solution: highlight the mistake and press Shift-Delete. It goes away!

Also, there's a new version of Firefox (1.02) which purports to fix some security issues with dot-gif files.

Posted by Linkmeister at March 24, 2005 12:05 PM
Comments

What a useful tip - thank you :)

Posted by: Shelagh at March 24, 2005 09:44 PM

The autofill frightens me! On the one hand, it's nice to have and speeds things up on a form fill, on the other... I discovered that on one site I make a lot of purchases on, it actually stored all my CC info!!! Not something I want stashed on my computer... Now I know how to get that out of there - Thanks Linky!

Posted by: CNL at March 25, 2005 04:47 AM

You could just turn the autofill off entirely. That solves the situation nicely.

Posted by: tom at March 25, 2005 07:33 AM

Well, gee, Tom, what are the instructions? ;)

Posted by: Linkmeister at March 25, 2005 07:51 AM

Linky, I don't know about Windows vs., but on the Mac, it's in the Preferences > Saved Form Information - uncheck the box that says "save form info..."

If I weren't so lazy about filling out forms, I'd do that. heh.

Posted by: CNL at March 26, 2005 04:33 AM

Thanks... I hadn't known about this. I just clear it all out every once in awhile.

Strangely, on my own blog comments, OTHER people's URLs come up when I go to type in my own URL. I'm not sure why that would happen when I've never typed someone else's URL when making a comment on my own blog. Strange.

Posted by: Chloe at March 26, 2005 12:46 PM

Chloe, I get a Yahoo url once in a while. It's probably a software/memory hiccup.

Posted by: Linkmeister at March 26, 2005 01:21 PM