| Author | Message | ||
     Saintly |
Running Windows XP op. system I'ts got a feature known as "autocomplete" which fills out empty fields for you as soon as you begin to type or if you click on the empty field it will offer all the options of what has previously been typed in that field. My question is: How can I get this to work for ALL fields? Currently autocomplete only makes my life easier for 3-4 websites(this one included), But everytime I need to log onto my email, or Ebay, or some search engines, I have to type out all info and all passwords. I'm a lazy sucker, so I'd like for autocomplete to finish everything I start, rather than keep typing it in every day, day after day, week after week, month after............... | ||
| Coal400 |
Sorry, I only know how to turn it off. FWIW: Its a regarded as a security risk, so we don't use the autocomplete feature. I do have to keep ~30 different passwords so I feel your pain. There are password keepers, and form fillers out there. A couple of people at work use them, I can find out which ones. I personally use the keeper in my blackberry. | ||
| Spike |
I'm not sure what triggers AutoComplete to kick in, but I know you can tell it to never ask again on specific fields. If it works for some fields and not others I'd guess someone has clicked no in a few places. I'm not sure how to reset it other than clearing the saved data, disabling autocomplete, then re-enabling it. The control for it is under the content tab in internet options, you can either get there from the control panel or from the browser. | ||
| Reepicheep |
It is offered by your browser based on the HTML markup from a particular site. The browsers take the field types and decide that this must be a sign on page, and then offer the feature. I know if you have two fields marked up in HTML as "password" fields, the browser will stop offering to save the password. If it's a javascript rich site, the browser also will probably not be able to penetrate the intent enough to know to offer the feature. It's a fairly high security risk, I would avoid it. Instead, look for the site you want to access to offer some sort of "remember me" feature. Thats risky as well, but it is probably done better then your browser would do it. |
