Re: SM 2.0 Form Management

2009-11-14 Thread asmpgmr
FYI - the removal of the form manager is a result of the migration from the original wallet code to the newer satchel code. The form manager was actually part of the password manager so if the 1.x form manager could be ported to 2.0 then theoretically the original password manager could be restored

Re: SM 2.0 Form Management

2009-11-14 Thread me2
I appreciate your response Phil, I guess my surprise is that a feature that's been with us this long should be declared "out" - I assume long thought was given to doing that, deciding that 2.o's other improvements outweighed waiting until form manger could be rewritten/fixed. It never occurred to m

Re: SM 2.0 Form Management

2009-11-13 Thread Philip Chee
On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:05:54 -0600, me2 wrote: > This thread seems to be winding down but I wanted to make one last > plea for the restoration of form manager, if SM's only claim to fame > is to slowly being reduced to "we"re firefox and thunderbird > combined", what's the point? > Those of us who

Re: SM 2.0 Form Management

2009-11-13 Thread MikeyG
me2 wrote: This thread seems to be winding down but I wanted to make one last plea for the restoration of form manager, if SM's only claim to fame is to slowly being reduced to "we"re firefox and thunderbird combined", what's the point? Those of us who have been Netscape users forever use these "

Re: SM 2.0 Form Management

2009-11-13 Thread me2
This thread seems to be winding down but I wanted to make one last plea for the restoration of form manager, if SM's only claim to fame is to slowly being reduced to "we"re firefox and thunderbird combined", what's the point? Those of us who have been Netscape users forever use these "little" unimp

Re: SM 2.0 Form Management

2009-11-12 Thread Phillip Jones
Jens Hatlak wrote: me2 wrote: BTW, who decided the old form manger wasn't needed/used/wanted? The Firefox developers. To be fair, they made that decision for Firefox only. When SeaMonkey made the switch to the common back-end (Toolkit) this is what we got. The old form manager would have had t

Re: SM 2.0 Form Management

2009-11-12 Thread Jens Hatlak
me2 wrote: BTW, who decided the old form manger wasn't needed/used/wanted? The Firefox developers. To be fair, they made that decision for Firefox only. When SeaMonkey made the switch to the common back-end (Toolkit) this is what we got. The old form manager would have had to be reimplemente

Re: SM 2.0 Form Management

2009-11-12 Thread Phillip Jones
Martin Freitag wrote: John Doue schrieb: Phillip Jones wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: JAS wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Funny that there are volunteers to take out working and useful features, but none to tweak them if they break. I suspect that anyone who needs to handle a number of value sets

Re: SM 2.0 Form Management

2009-11-12 Thread Martin Freitag
John Doue schrieb: > Phillip Jones wrote: >> Bill Davidsen wrote: >>> JAS wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: > > Funny that there are volunteers to take out working and useful > features, but none to tweak them if they break. I suspect that anyone > who needs to handle a number of val

Re: SM 2.0 Form Management

2009-11-12 Thread John Doue
Phillip Jones wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: JAS wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Martin Freitag wrote: me2 schrieb: I downloaded and installed the extension, its better than nothing, but I suspect I am not in a minority in missing the original from manger. having to add something like Roboform see

Re: SM 2.0 Form Management

2009-11-11 Thread Phillip Jones
The way forms works now is you type something in say first Name That item is then saved to the internal forms Manager to be reused. and next time you need to fill in first name you type first letter and a list of choices show up. you choose what you need. Only thing is if you type a Mistake y

Re: SM 2.0 Form Management

2009-11-11 Thread Phillip Jones
George Carden wrote: Phillip Jones wrote: me2 wrote: On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:49:14 -0500, Phillip Jones wrote: Download and install the Forms History Manager extension I did - when a form is in my browser nothing happens- enable form and search history is selected in history, a right click

Re: SM 2.0 Form Management

2009-11-11 Thread Phillip Jones
Bill Davidsen wrote: JAS wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Martin Freitag wrote: me2 schrieb: I downloaded and installed the extension, its better than nothing, but I suspect I am not in a minority in missing the original from manger. having to add something like Roboform seems to defeat the origin

Re: SM 2.0 Form Management

2009-11-11 Thread Tom Pamin
Pat Welch wrote: me2 wrote: I see that but I'm NOT seeing any form filling, i.e., no offers to fill any forms so far - is this function "on" automatically or do I need to do something to invoke it? BTW, who decided the old form manger wasn't needed/used/wanted? sigh... On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:

Re: SM 2.0 Form Management

2009-11-11 Thread Pat Welch
me2 wrote: I see that but I'm NOT seeing any form filling, i.e., no offers to fill any forms so far - is this function "on" automatically or do I need to do something to invoke it? BTW, who decided the old form manger wasn't needed/used/wanted? sigh... On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:40:51 -0500, Phill

Re: SM 2.0 Form Management

2009-11-11 Thread me2
I see that but I'm NOT seeing any form filling, i.e., no offers to fill any forms so far - is this function "on" automatically or do I need to do something to invoke it? BTW, who decided the old form manger wasn't needed/used/wanted? sigh... On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:40:51 -0500, Phillip Jones wro

Re: SM 2.0 Form Management

2009-11-11 Thread George Carden
Phillip Jones wrote: me2 wrote: On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:49:14 -0500, Phillip Jones wrote: Download and install the Forms History Manager extension I did - when a form is in my browser nothing happens- enable form and search history is selected in history, a right click reveals form history a

Re: SM 2.0 Form Management

2009-11-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
JAS wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Martin Freitag wrote: me2 schrieb: I downloaded and installed the extension, its better than nothing, but I suspect I am not in a minority in missing the original from manger. having to add something like Roboform seems to defeat the original concept- Is there a

Re: SM 2.0 Form Management

2009-11-11 Thread Phillip Jones
me2 wrote: On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:49:14 -0500, Phillip Jones wrote: Download and install the Forms History Manager extension I did - when a form is in my browser nothing happens- enable form and search history is selected in history, a right click reveals form history and there are items li

Re: SM 2.0 Form Management

2009-11-11 Thread me2
On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:49:14 -0500, Phillip Jones wrote: >Download and install the Forms History Manager extension I did - when a form is in my browser nothing happens- enable form and search history is selected in history, a right click reveals form history and there are items listed BUT so far

Re: SM 2.0 Form Management

2009-11-11 Thread Phillip Jones
Download and install the Forms History Manager extension me2 wrote: So for the newt form "whateverthehellitiscalled" hasn't reacted/show up when presented with a "form" in the browser- is there a spell to invoke? I've never tried to go backwards after a SM update- is there going to be a problem

Re: SM 2.0 Form Management

2009-11-11 Thread me2
So for the newt form "whateverthehellitiscalled" hasn't reacted/show up when presented with a "form" in the browser- is there a spell to invoke? I've never tried to go backwards after a SM update- is there going to be a problem with going back to 1.1.8 from 2.0? Is there a version of mozilla tha

Re: SM 2.0 Form Management

2009-11-11 Thread JAS
Bill Davidsen wrote: > Martin Freitag wrote: >> me2 schrieb: >>> I downloaded and installed the extension, its better than nothing, but >>> I suspect I am not in a minority in missing the original from manger. >>> having to add something like Roboform seems to defeat the original >>> concept- Is th

Re: SM 2.0 Form Management

2009-11-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
Martin Freitag wrote: me2 schrieb: I downloaded and installed the extension, its better than nothing, but I suspect I am not in a minority in missing the original from manger. having to add something like Roboform seems to defeat the original concept- Is there any hope at all of restoring form m

Re: SM 2.0 Form Management

2009-11-10 Thread MikeyG
me2 wrote: I downloaded and installed the extension, its better than nothing, but I suspect I am not in a minority in missing the original from manger. having to add something like Roboform seems to defeat the original concept- Is there any hope at all of restoring form manager? I will uninstall

Re: SM 2.0 Form Management

2009-11-10 Thread Martin Freitag
me2 schrieb: > I downloaded and installed the extension, its better than nothing, but > I suspect I am not in a minority in missing the original from manger. > having to add something like Roboform seems to defeat the original > concept- Is there any hope at all of restoring form manager? > I will

Re: SM 2.0 Form Management

2009-11-10 Thread me2
I downloaded and installed the extension, its better than nothing, but I suspect I am not in a minority in missing the original from manger. having to add something like Roboform seems to defeat the original concept- Is there any hope at all of restoring form manager? I will uninstall 2.O and go ba

Re: SM 2.0 Form Management

2009-11-10 Thread Phillip Jones
me2 wrote: let us hope - I didn't use firefox for this very reason. On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:12:25 -0400, Lou wrote: Dennis Gleeson wrote: > A new form manager replaces all previous web form management, and > automatically keeps a record of what you type into forms and presents > you

Re: SM 2.0 Form Management

2009-11-09 Thread me2
let us hope - I didn't use firefox for this very reason. On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:12:25 -0400, Lou wrote: >Dennis Gleeson wrote: >> > A new form manager replaces all previous web form management, and >> > automatically keeps a record of what you type into forms and presents >> > you these optio

Re: SM 2.0 Form Management

2009-10-30 Thread Lucas Levrel
Le 29 octobre 2009, NoOp a écrit : > > On 28/10/2009 10:30, Lucas Levrel wrote: > >> And to make it remember some forms but not > >> all (e.g. logging-in forms for forums but not for bank accounts)? > > Relevant bug: > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=304309 > [convert to satchel from

Re: SM 2.0 Form Management

2009-10-29 Thread NoOp
On 10/28/2009 03:50 AM, Mark Banner wrote: > On 28/10/2009 10:30, Lucas Levrel wrote: >> My question: is there a way to make it remember only *part* of a form >> (e.g. login but not password)? And to make it remember some forms but not >> all (e.g. logging-in forms for forums but not for bank accou

Re: SM 2.0 Form Management

2009-10-28 Thread Lou
Dennis Gleeson wrote: > A new form manager replaces all previous web form management, and > automatically keeps a record of what you type into forms and presents > you these options in a drop-down list when you come back. I haven't downloaded the new version yet but have a question based on s

Re: SM 2.0 Form Management

2009-10-28 Thread Mark Banner
On 28/10/2009 10:30, Lucas Levrel wrote: My question: is there a way to make it remember only *part* of a form (e.g. login but not password)? And to make it remember some forms but not all (e.g. logging-in forms for forums but not for bank accounts)? Passwords are not saved by the form manager

Re: SM 2.0 Form Management

2009-10-28 Thread Lucas Levrel
Le 27 octobre 2009, Dennis Gleeson a écrit : > > A new form manager replaces all previous web form management, and > > automatically keeps a record of what you type into forms and presents > > you these options in a drop-down list when you come back. > > I haven't downloaded the new version yet b

Re: SM 2.0 Form Management

2009-10-28 Thread Tom Pamin
Dennis Gleeson wrote: > A new form manager replaces all previous web form management, and > automatically keeps a record of what you type into forms and presents > you these options in a drop-down list when you come back. I haven't downloaded the new version yet but have a question based on