Bug#444499: field completion / suggestion often gets in the way

Frederik Eaton frederik at ofb.net
Fri Feb 19 14:12:30 UTC 2010


On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 08:48:21AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:57:02PM +0100, Frederik Eaton wrote:
> > Thanks for the response. That's a very reasonable misunderstanding -
> > Google has added completion to its search box since this bug was filed
> > two years ago, and is therefore no longer a good way to reproduce the
> > bug.
> > 
> > ***
> > 
> > I can still reproduce the bug in a plain HTML text input box under
> > 3.0.15. If you need an example of a plain HTML text input box, there
> > is probably a more canonical one but ... here:
> > http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/jwb/wwwjdic?1C/
> 
> This gets more understandable, but for me (but under 3.5.6) the
> completion thing is not as annoying as you describe it. Could you give a
> try to the iceweasel version from squeeze ?

I'm sorry for the long delay in replying. I tried version 3.5.8 and
still found the same problems. Can you perhaps be more specific about
what you think is fixed?

Thank you,

Frederik





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