RE: Firefox

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From: Luke Kanies
Subject: RE: Firefox
Date: 17:44 on 11 Aug 2005
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Gavin Estey wrote:

>
> I also hate how Firefox tries to save and autofill things it shouldn't. I'm
> kind of concerned how I can type in 4483 into a textbox and it helpfully
> will complete the rest of my Visa number.

The "I'm trying to be helpful" aspect of Firefox that I've been hating
recently is when I'm modifying the first word in some text in a text
field.  It works fine if I'm modifying the end of the text, but if I try
to click into the middle of the text then the little autofill thing
comes up and basically steals my click.  It usually takes about four or
five clicks to actually get a functional cursor where I want, and you
can pretty much forget about just click-dragging to select your text.

Safari has some similar hate to this because it autofills the URL on the
URL bar, instead of in a menu below it.  I find that I have to type, um,
real fast in order to get to a URL that's part of another, longer URL
that I've previously gone to.  Otherwise, Safari helpfully fills in
the longer URL and I inevitably go there instead of where i wanted.

Yeah, thanks guys.

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