DiscussionForBetterAutocompletesInForms

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Feel free to discuss it here

Original proposal:

Better autocomplete in form fields
  • Autocomplete list should be editable (like cookie-list) or erasable otherwise it will contain a lot of trash after some time and it is also a mild security risk because sometimes people demonstrate their actions and it is not nice previous entries pop-up; perhaps some toggle can help to disable/enable the feature
  • Also, Emacs-style autocomplete ("dynamic expansion") of words will increase input speed dramatically in input and textarea fields
  • It could go even further by having abbrev-list in a meta rel fashion (the same fashion as favicon is specifyed or other related documents)

If implemented, this proposal can boost productivity for web-application users with technically simple (and known from many text-processors/editors) UI add-on

Ref:

Default browser UI

Discussion:

Features suggested are aimed at better manageability of autocomlete features of Firefox. First one is about user control over that list of suggested completes; the other two is about boosting text-input speed by dynamic expansion.

Better: Fix Bug 13474! 7 years for a Bug are quite long!