firefox wants to enter a misspelled email address in forms?

Bill Marcum marcumbill at bellsouth.net
Wed Mar 21 17:20:26 UTC 2007


On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:00:17 -0400, Matt Price 
  <matt.price at utoronto.ca> wrote:
>
> --===============3422934061466439336==
> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-BytWZQROExDmTghlkVPF"
>
>
> --=-BytWZQROExDmTghlkVPF
> Content-Type: text/plain
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>
> hi,
>
> for some time i've had an issue in firefox with te following symptom:
> when i'm typing in an "email address" field in an html form, firefox
> thinks my email address should be "matt.price at utoroto.ca", which is a
> missplelling of my real address, "matt.price at utoronto.ca".  i assume
> that some time in the distant past i misspelled my address... =20
>
> anyway i would like to ocnvince firefox that it's wrong, but i don't
> seem to be able to.  is there a way to change one field in the form
> history data?  i took a peek at formhistory.dat in
> my .mozilla/firefox/userhash/ firectory, but it appears to be encrypted
> somehow and i can't make heads or tail of it. =20
>
> anyway, helkp appreciated!
>
If you press the down arrow you should be able to choose among different 
entries that you have made for that item.  If you told Firefox to 
remember a password on that form, you might have to remove the password 
in "Edit: Preferences: Security: Show Passwords".


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