firefox wants to enter a misspelled email address in forms?

[Matthew Flaschen]

Matt Price wrote:
>>> to be fair to myself, i did crush 3 bones in my right forearm less than
>>> a year ago, and the fact that i can type at all is already pretty
>>> miraculous...
>> Glad you're recovering okay.  Anyway, this is no problem.  Just press
>> the down key until you have the misspelling selected, then press
>> Shift-Delete.
>>
> a,k if i'd only known it were so easy!  thanks matt.  
> it seems as though firefox is now reluctant to ADD new values for this
> field, though.  so now that i've tried entering my real address in the
> forms at lists.ubuntu.com, having deleted the previously-irritating
> misspelled value, no new value is being saved.  any idea where i ought
> to look to change this behaviour?  somewhere in the bowels of
> about:config, perhaps?

That's strange.  What version of Firefox are you running.  In 1.5, open
Preferences, click Privacy, then Saved Forms.  Make sure the box is
checked. Otherwise, I would just restart the browser and be patient.
It's likely just a fluke.

Matt Flaschen