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Ask HN: Why do you disable HTML form autocomplete?

8 pointsby terichoover 10 years ago
I&#x27;ve been noticing that Chrome&#x27;s autocomplete does not work on <i>significantly</i> more sites than it does. Each time I&#x27;ve been inspecting the HTML and sometimes its caused by unsemantic form field names, but more often it&#x27;s forcefully disabled with `autocomplete=&quot;off&quot;`. Why are people doing this? It&#x27;s cumbersome and error prone to fill in the same monotonous information over and over, please let my browser do it for me.

4 comments

wglbover 10 years ago
Recent releases of IE and Chrome now, unfortunately, ignore the &quot;autocomplete=off&quot; setting. Being required to fill it in each time is annoying, but it is surprisingly easy for an exploit to get the browser to cough up the credentials. So it appears that this issue will soon be moot, with all browsers autocompleting regardless.<p>What I do is to use 1password and paste the password in.
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MiddleEndianover 10 years ago
Back in the day, Opera did not care whether a form had autocomplete set to off, or even if a form was bizarrely structured, the magic wand would fill in whatever you wanted on command.<p>If only it didn&#x27;t morph into a low quality Chrome-clone...
steniusover 10 years ago
I&#x27;ve seen people use placeholders to label form fields. If something got auto completed, it might contain incorrect data.
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tectonicover 10 years ago
Paranoia.