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Getting the autocomplete setting to work by typing the first letter of a word

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issuncamus
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Before I installed Firefox 5.0, I had made it so that whenever I visited a website that remembered an account/password of mine, this happened:

1.- It asked for my master password. 2.- After entering it, I would click on the form field and then type in the FIRST LETTER of the account. 3.- When entering that exact first letter, Firefox would suggest in a drop-down menu the account or accounts that started with that letter on that particular site, e.g.: say I have a Twitter account that is "koko999". If I went to twitter.com and entered the letter "k" in the form field (after entering the master password), Firefox would suggest the account "koko999" in the drop-down menu. 4.- After selecting the account that I desired from the drop-down menu, Firefox would automatically autocomplete the password. 5.- Then, if I closed Firefox, all my active accounts would close/sign out. So, if afterwards I opened Firefox, I would have to repeat from Step 1 if I wanted to use an account, e.g.: if I closed FF while having my Twitter account logged in, and then opened FF again, I would have to start from Step 1.

Now, I had this setting for a bunch of different websites. After installing Firefox 5.0, this configuration vanished or something. Now, when entering the master password, Firefox autocompletes EVERYTHING. Say, using the example from before, that I go to twitter.com. Firefox asks for the master password, I enter it and then the ID/password for the twitter account automatically fills in without me entering any letter in the form field. And I do not want Firefox to do that!

So, I'm asking for help. I know that what I what to do is not impossible, I just can't find the way to do it! I kinda need the exact steps. Thanks a lot!

Before I installed Firefox 5.0, I had made it so that whenever I visited a website that remembered an account/password of mine, this happened: 1.- It asked for my master password. 2.- After entering it, I would click on the form field and then type in the FIRST LETTER of the account. 3.- When entering that exact first letter, Firefox would suggest in a drop-down menu the account or accounts that started with that letter on that particular site, e.g.: say I have a Twitter account that is "koko999". If I went to twitter.com and entered the letter "k" in the form field (after entering the master password), Firefox would suggest the account "koko999" in the drop-down menu. 4.- After selecting the account that I desired from the drop-down menu, Firefox would automatically autocomplete the password. 5.- Then, if I closed Firefox, all my active accounts would close/sign out. So, if afterwards I opened Firefox, I would have to repeat from Step 1 if I wanted to use an account, e.g.: if I closed FF while having my Twitter account logged in, and then opened FF again, I would have to start from Step 1. Now, I had this setting for a bunch of different websites. After installing Firefox 5.0, this configuration vanished or something. Now, when entering the master password, Firefox autocompletes EVERYTHING. Say, using the example from before, that I go to twitter.com. Firefox asks for the master password, I enter it and then the ID/password for the twitter account automatically fills in without me entering any letter in the form field. And I do not want Firefox to do that! So, I'm asking for help. I know that what I what to do is not impossible, I just can't find the way to do it! I kinda need the exact steps. Thanks a lot!

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David McRitchie
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Actually you don't have to guess the first character of your userid, you can just double-click. If there is only one choice it gets filled in otherwise you have to select from the list. Then if you had previously check-marked remember password and everything works right it fills in. But this only happens if you either don't have a master password or have already supplied your master password.

I notice some changes for the better and some for the worse but I can't tell if it is Firefox or the webpages. What I really dislike is being asked to login to something if I just want to browse and not change, update or anything else that needs to be secured. As for my other data that really seems to vary as to what gets filled in.

You can have your form data not be saved by checking the box "Form and Search History", but if you're logged into a site that might not make much difference.

cor-el
cor-el
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See:

If you are in Private Browsing then Firefox wont fill the names and passwords automatically.

You can set the pref browser.sessionstore.privacy_level to 2 (never) or 1 (non-HTTPS, default in Firefox 3 versions) on the about:config page to disable saving cookies via session restore.

You can also use Delete browsing, search and download history on Firefox to clear the "Active Logins" when you close Firefox.

To open the about:config page, type about:config in the location (address) bar and press the "Enter" key, just like you type the url of a website to open a website.
If you see a warning then you can confirm that you want to access that page.
You can use the Filter bar at to top of the about:config page to locate a pref more easily.