QUIT FUCKING CHANGING FIELDS AUTOMATICALLY!
I can’t tell you how many times I try to log in only to have half of my password show up in the login field because it switches back while I’m typing. Who the fuck thought this was good? Is there any way to turn it off? I am using a PC now, but it is one thing that I really miss from my Mac.
Never had that happen with Firefox. I’m using FF 1.0.7 under Win XP pro. You using any oddball extensions that might be causing this?
It could also be the fault of the website in question. Some sites have scripts on their login pages that automatically set focus to the ‘username’ field when the page finishes loading, and if you’ve already started into the password field, it’ll switch while you’re still typing, with the results that you describe.
I’ve had a similar problem when I’ve used it. No idea of what the solution might be (or why it doesn’t happen every time).
You apparantly have it set to remember passwords. Under TOOLS, go to PRIVACY, open the SAVED PASSWORDS file, uncheck the SAVE PASSWORDS box, clear out all the saved ones if you don’t want to keep any it already saved.
… missed a step …
Also, for your computer to be running slow enough that you can start typing in the logins before Firefox pastes in its auto saved info, you might want to address that issue too.
Spyware and adware can slow down every function, not just opening up web pages.
I agree. I have had the same problem with both FireFox and IE. The “fix” is to wait until the page has fully loaded.
Never had this problem myself, I’m on the latest Firefox and XP. However, my odd problem of not being able to click my middle button to open links in a new tab if the link is in bold font still persists.
ho-hum.
To be fair, every browser has it’s own odd, little, quirks. A friend of mine who does web development stuff says that the hardest browser to get web pages working is IE. Apparently, it does a number of odd things, some of which totally violate standards, and if he get a page to work in Safari, it’ll work in everything but IE. If he just writes the page so that it works in IE, then it won’t work properly in anything else. Needless to say, he hates, IE with a passion.
that’s not the problem. I don’t have it set to remember passwords. I mean I start typing my login and I hit tab, and I start my password, and then the field flips back to login while I’m typing my password and I type half of my password (or all) in the login field.
Has the page finished loading when you start typing your login? If the “throbber” has stopped moving and the Status Bar says Done, then it has.
Type slower?
I have fumble fingers and sometimes hit the wrong keys ----- every time ----- slow down for a bit and make sure you are not doing it your self.
Always remember and never forget, the typewriter repair man that just had to adjust the good looking secretary’s chair up a half inch to fix the extra spaces her machine was always adding when she looked too close at the paper in the carriage.
I don’t think it is a FireFox problem. It is usually done by the web designer using JavaScript to automatically default the focus to a particular field. The only problem is it usually occurs only after the page is fully loaded by which time you may have started to type in a different field.
It happens to me in Opera and IE as well, and being a web programmer I have implemented this particular bit of JavaScript myself in the past.
That’s the worst part about IE. I used to design for IE every time, as 98% of our users had it. But now that their marketshare has gone down, I have had to change, and now I see how bad IE handles HTML with its own proprietary stuff superceding the standards. It’s really quite frustrating indeed, and the most difficult part about web design.
I think the issue is that you (and me) have a slow (dial up?) connection, so the entire page didn’t load yet, and you started typing your password, once the page fully loads you default to the username field.
Yes it sucks, but not worth the $900 worth of equipment and the ongoing monthly charge for boradband up here.