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Bug 166172 - Firefox style dropdown autocomplete for webforms
Firefox style dropdown autocomplete for webforms
Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE
Product: epiphany
Classification: Core
Component: [obsolete] Backend:Mozilla
git master
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: Ephy/XR
Assigned To: Epiphany Maintainers
Marco Pesenti Gritti
: 326277 328153 341669 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-02-03 15:53 UTC by Kevin Francis
Modified: 2012-10-20 15:58 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Kevin Francis 2005-02-03 15:53:50 UTC 
Firefox has a feature, whereby form entries are remembered, and when next typing
in a similar form, it autocompletes with a dropdown. Very nice to have when say
... commenting on a weblog.
Comment 1 Reinout van Schouwen 2005-04-25 16:13:49 UTC 
I think this was discussed on IRC, and the only thing holding back this feature
was the replication of the XUL user interface in GTK. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Comment 2 Frederic Crozat 2005-08-22 13:58:26 UTC 
unfortunately, when using FF backend, we get this behaviour without
autocompletion widget, resulting in broken UI when more than one login are
available for a webpage :(
Comment 3 Christian Persch 2005-08-22 19:56:06 UTC 
We need to do what ff does in
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/toolkit/content/widgets/browser.xml#360
: attachFormFill, i.e. set a nsIAutoCompletePopup instance in the form fill
controller for the embed's docshell. The problem is that ff implements the
nsIAutoCompletePopup in XBL
[http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/toolkit/content/widgets/autocomplete.xml]
so I have no idea how we would go about instantiating one of these.
Comment 4 Reinout van Schouwen 2006-01-09 15:51:21 UTC 
*** Bug 326277 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Reinout van Schouwen 2006-01-22 13:32:18 UTC 
*** Bug 328153 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Reinout van Schouwen 2006-05-14 10:50:37 UTC 
*** Bug 341669 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Stéphane Démurget 2006-10-15 16:24:13 UTC 
That's really the only thing I miss from FF. Whenever you've got a complex code to remember, only remembering the first letters/characters is so better.

I'm not sure I understand all the technical bits, but fwding the bug upstream requiring an API for that would be instantly rejected?
Comment 8 Sven Arvidsson 2009-09-10 19:54:18 UTC 
Long term, are there any plans to add this to the webkit backend?
Comment 9 Tobias Endrigkeit 2012-10-20 15:58:18 UTC 
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug.
However, you are using a version that is too old and not supported anymore. GNOME developers are no longer working on that version, so unfortunately there will not be any bug fixes for the version that you use.

By upgrading to a newer version of GNOME you could receive bug fixes and new functionality. You may need to upgrade your Linux distribution to obtain a newer version of GNOME.
Please feel free to reopen this bug if the problem still occurs with a newer version of GNOME.