[arch-general] Firefox user data autofill doesn't work as before

[Eli Schwartz]

On 03/08/2017 04:20 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Mar 2017 21:40:37 +0100, Peter Nabbefeld wrote:
>> before latest update, firefox filled my login credentials
>> automatically into the appropriate fields. Now I've first to select
>> the user in a dropdown list - how can I revert this behaviour?
> 
> During the years Firefox made that much steps into the wrong
> direction, that I'm surprised that a user still cares that much about
> new issues introduced by a Firefox update.
> 
> One of the most worse steps IMO was the step that after selecting a
> link in the history, the cursor in the history does lose focus. IOW if
> you searched an hour to find a segment with several wanted links, after
> clicking one link, the selection gets lost and you need to search
> again. I'm not aware of any other browser with this abstruse behaviour.
> 
> Many other users dislike that they need to check about:config against
> google safebrowsing spyware again and again.

Did you just post here to make a completely unrelated rant, or what?

You may not have realized this change is a positive security
enhancement, as Stephan Fischer posted about it mere minutes before you,
but, really, you were clearly not even trying to be helpful at all.

...

Also, I am not really sure what your complaint about the History is,
generally I *want* to go to the link I clicked in the foreground... but
okay, switch back to the History window if you really need to.

If you really wanted to complain about something, maybe you should
complain about the fact that the History only "remembers" the last time
you visited a link... i.e. right "now", when you clicked on it in the
History window.

So maybe brush up on your effective-complaining skills, in addition to
your relevancy skills...

-- 
Eli Schwartz

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