firefox wants to enter a misspelled email address in forms?

[Matthew Flaschen]

Matt Price wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
> hmm, i'm not sure it is just a fluke.  i've restarted several times and
> am seeing the same behaviour, using 
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/bazaar-announce
> as a test case. The form on this page has two fields at the top, emmail
> address and name.  Having deleted the incorrectly-spelled email address,
> i find that no new data is being gathered for that field

Sorry, I really don't know, then.  You might consider filing a bug
(bugzilla.mozilla.org).

Matt Flaschen