* Gordon Haverland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sunday 09 January 2005 21:48, you wrote: > > * Gordon Haverland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Package: mozilla-firefox > > > Version: 1.0+dfsg.1-1 > > > Severity: normal > > > > > > Sort of on the wishlist side of things, I am kind of annoyed > > > with how firefox does completion of forms. If I am visiting > > > a personals site, I don't need help in completing salutations > > > (Subject). And I also don't like firefox monitoring my > > > spelling and getting caught up in contractions (can't, won't, > > > doesn't, etc.) and crashing. > > > > What do mean by this? I'm very confused, can you give me > > specific examples, urls, etc? > > A message to someone has a salutation (basically a Subject field > if it was email, but it isn't) and a body. It is a single line > data entry field. Having Firefox "help me" by allowing me to > choose from everything I have previously used in messages to > people at that site is annoying. Maybe other people are such > poor typists that they need help in typing 1 word or two. That > is the annoying salutation wishlist item. > > In the body of messages, I often find myself using contractions. > Instead of cannot, can't. Instead of would not, won't. Instead > of does not, doesn't. Most of the time I used a contraction, > Firefox would add a spelling/word search bar to the bottom of the > browser session, and about half the time crash. This is the use > of contractions wishlist item. > > These are just wishlist items. If they don't disappear, I can > continue to work around them and/or ignore them. They didn't > cause things to crash all the time. > > > > But, on the point of the bug report. As part of my getting > > > annoyed with how firefox does completion, I edited my > > > preferences and turned off completion for all sites. At that > > > point, any attempt to send messages to people at personal's > > > sites resulted in forefox crashing. Turning on form > > > completion again seems to have stopped firefox from crashing. > > > > Which personal site? I need more specifics. > > You are going to join a personals site to check this out? > www.okcupid.com is one site where it happened, another was > www.plentyoffish.com. Both are free sites. > > okcupid has a fair amount of javascript in their pages, > plentyoffish generally quite a bit less. > > When I had the form completion (Preferences/Privacy/Saved Form) > turned on, things more or less worked. I would imagine there is > a cache on disk somewhere with all the stuff I had typed in to > messages I had sent people. When I tried turning off form > completion, I had browser sessions crashing everytime for both > okcupid and plentyoffish. Thinking that perhaps Firefox didn't > like not completing open forms if it had data cached, I decided > to turn on saved form completion again and try sending messages. > It started working again. Whether the crashing is due to having > data in the cache or not, I haven't a clue. I am busy trying to > track down some problem with perl/CGI stuff I am writing.
Ok, I will try turning off this option myself and see if I have crashes. Mail me again in a few days to remind me. Did you try cleaning the Saved Form Information? > > > It's not a serious bug if you know about how things are going > > > to behave, but it is annoying. > > I am a pretty good typist after almost 30 years of computers. I > really don't need computers to type in salutations and what not > for me. Which is why I tried to turn the stuff off. But most of > the programming I have done is number crunching stuff, and I > really don't like trying to debug GUI or web applications. It > usually ends up being like FORTRAN-IV. Put in a zillion print > statements and find where things die from what gets printed out. > If you had some kind of idea as to how to get more information, I > am willing to try things. It gives me a break from this perl > stuff I am working on. > > Gord -- Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s++: a-- C+++ UL+++ P++ L++ E++ W++ N+ o K- w+ O? M++ V-- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t++ 5++ X+ R tv++ b+++ DI+ D+ G e h! r- y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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