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Firefox 3 - be careful of embarrassing titles

Firefox 3 - be careful of embarrassing titles

Posted May 19, 2008 19:53 UTC (Mon) by proski (subscriber, #104)
In reply to: Firefox 3 - be careful of embarrassing titles by allesfresser
Parent article: Firefox 3 Release Candidate available

Autocompletion is not supposed to interrupt you. You should be able to type what you want as if there is no autocompletion. If it doesn't work that way, it's a bug. I've seen that bug in Internet Explorer, but not in any version of Mozilla Firefox.


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Firefox 3 - be careful of embarrassing titles

Posted May 19, 2008 20:28 UTC (Mon) by jwb (subscriber, #15467) [Link]

It interrupts you because it runs a SQL query on every keystroke.  

Firefox 3 - be careful of embarrassing titles

Posted May 19, 2008 21:42 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Shades of that most misguided of products, Oracle*Mail... ;)

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