Re: SM remembers values when Form Filling?
Gerry Hickman wrote: The tip about being able to delete specific values is really handy; I've just tested it and it works as expected. The original problem turned out to be that he'd accidentally entered a password into a non-password box, and then SeaMonkey was offering the password in the drop down. I was able to use the tip above to delete the unwanted value while not affecting other forms. While looking into this, I also found many more sites that provide a user-name and password log-in facility on a page that is NOT SSL. Sometimes that page you land on after logging in is SSL, but not the one where you are typing the password. -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: SM remembers values when Form Filling?
On 1/29/11 9:21 AM, Gerry Hickman wrote: Hi, SM 2.0.11 When you fill in a form in SM, it remembers the values, and when you navigate back to that page it will offer you the values as you start typing. I don't remember it doing this in early 1.x builds. It can be very handy. Anyway, on a friends computer, it seems they have accidentally typed a password into a field that's not a password field, and it now pops up the password in plain text when they re-visit the page! Unfortunately, this computer is hundreds of miles away, so I can only try to help by phone. I have two questions: 1. Can I clear remembered form values without clearing other saved items? 2. Is it possible to turn off the feature that remembers values in forms? Thanks. On the SeaMonky menubar, select [Edit Preferences]. On the Preferences window, select [Browser History] under Category (on the left side of the window). On the History pane, make sure that the Enable form and search history checkbox is NOT checked. Select the OK button. Finally, you might clear data on terminating SeaMonkey. Again, on the menubar, select [Edit Preferences]. On the Preferences window, select [Privacy Security]. On the Privacy Security pane, make sure the very top checkbox IS CHECKED. Then check the other checkboxes per your personal preferences. Remember to select the OK button. [The above is from a reply I posted only two days ago to the thread filling out forms. You really should read some of the other threads in this newsgroup before asking a question that has already been answered.] -- David E. Ross http://www.rossde.com/ On occasion, I might filter and ignore all newsgroup messages posted through GoogleGroups via Google's G2/1.0 user agent because of spam from that source. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: SM remembers values when Form Filling?
David E. Ross wrote: On 1/29/11 9:21 AM, Gerry Hickman wrote: On the SeaMonky menubar, select [Edit Preferences]. On the Preferences window, select [Browser History] under Category (on the left side of the window). On the History pane, make sure that the Enable form and search history checkbox is NOT checked. Select the OK button. Thanks, this is very helpful and I'm sorry I didn't see the recent similar thread. I also did some further testing, and notice that not all web sites remember values that are typed into form fields. Could it be SSL vs HTTP? I then noticed that if I go to BT (the UK phone company), it has a log in box on the right, and this site does NOT appear to be SSL - unless they've got SSL buried in an IFRAME or something? I thought you were not supposed to enter passwords into forms unless it was SSL? http://www.bt.com/ Anyway, on the friend's computer, he was logging into a bank and I'm sure it must be SSL enabled, so I'm wondering, perhaps there's something else going on. I thought it was just SM remembering values... Finally, you might clear data on terminating SeaMonkey. Again, on the menubar, select [Edit Preferences]. On the Preferences window, select [Privacy Security]. On the Privacy Security pane, make sure the very top checkbox IS CHECKED. Then check the other checkboxes per your personal preferences. Remember to select the OK button. [The above is from a reply I posted only two days ago to the thread filling out forms. You really should read some of the other threads in this newsgroup before asking a question that has already been answered.] -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: SM remembers values when Form Filling?
On 1/29/11 10:23 AM, Gerry Hickman wrote [in part]: I also did some further testing, and notice that not all web sites remember values that are typed into form fields. Could it be SSL vs HTTP? I then noticed that if I go to BT (the UK phone company), it has a log in box on the right, and this site does NOT appear to be SSL - unless they've got SSL buried in an IFRAME or something? I thought you were not supposed to enter passwords into forms unless it was SSL? http://www.bt.com/ Anyway, on the friend's computer, he was logging into a bank and I'm sure it must be SSL enabled, so I'm wondering, perhaps there's something else going on. I thought it was just SM remembering values... Some sites claim they can get user IDs and passwords encrypted on non-SSL pages. I don't believe it and am cautious when using such pages to login. User IDs are okay on non-SSL pages, but I weigh what it is that I am protecting with a password if it is requested on a non-SSL page. See my http://www.rossde.com/editorials/CalOaksBank.html. -- David E. Ross http://www.rossde.com/ On occasion, I might filter and ignore all newsgroup messages posted through GoogleGroups via Google's G2/1.0 user agent because of spam from that source. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: SM remembers values when Form Filling?
Gerry Hickman wrote: I have two questions: 1. Can I clear remembered form values without clearing other saved items? 2. Is it possible to turn off the feature that remembers values in forms? This should answer both questions: http://www.seamonkey-project.org/doc/2.0/forms HTH Jens -- Jens Hatlak http://jens.hatlak.de/ SeaMonkey Trunk Tracker http://smtt.blogspot.com/ ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: SM remembers values when Form Filling?
Jens Hatlak wrote: Gerry Hickman wrote: I have two questions: 1. Can I clear remembered form values without clearing other saved items? 2. Is it possible to turn off the feature that remembers values in forms? This should answer both questions: http://www.seamonkey-project.org/doc/2.0/forms Thanks! That explains a lot. I did look in the help file, but didn't see this info. This also explains why I thought it had changed between 1.x and 2.x -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: SM remembers values when Form Filling?
Jens Hatlak wrote: Gerry Hickman wrote: I have two questions: 1. Can I clear remembered form values without clearing other saved items? 2. Is it possible to turn off the feature that remembers values in forms? This should answer both questions: http://www.seamonkey-project.org/doc/2.0/forms The tip about being able to delete specific values is really handy; I've just tested it and it works as expected. -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
