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Making "aufofill" actually fill

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redunzl
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I recently used CCleaner a little too robustly and apparently destroyed a setting I'd like to get back.

For my job, I have to sign-in to a Claris Filemaker portal. What used to happen was: I'd go to that webpage, and my username and password were already populating their respective fields, and all I had to do was click the "sign in" button.

Now what happens is: the fields are blank, but if I click into the blank username field, Firefox then offers to fill-in the fields -- my username appears underneath the blank field, and "From this website". If I click on this, only then does Firefox actually populate the fields as if I typed them. If I only had to this once or twice or day, this wouldn't bother me. But I have to do this 20 or more times a day. The extra needed mouse-click is annoying because it used to behave differently, as I described above.

In settings, I do indeed have "autofill logins and passwords" checked. If I uncheck it, the only difference is a generic "account name" label appears where I should type my username (I assume this is Filemaker's prompt). I can still click on it and Firefox offers to fill it. When "autofill logins and passwords" is checked, the "account name" label does not appear, but the field is still blank and I still must click on it to get Firefox to fill in the info. I have attached an image showing the difference. Again, what used to occur is: when I'd go the webpage, "EH" was already inside the first box.

Since I can't seem to get the behavior I want from using the standard "Settings" in Firefox, I'm hoping there's something under "about:config" that one of you experts can direct me to.

Thanks in advance for any help!

I recently used CCleaner a little too robustly and apparently destroyed a setting I'd like to get back. For my job, I have to sign-in to a Claris Filemaker portal. What used to happen was: I'd go to that webpage, and my username and password were already populating their respective fields, and all I had to do was click the "sign in" button. Now what happens is: the fields are blank, but if I click into the blank username field, Firefox then offers to fill-in the fields -- my username appears underneath the blank field, and "From this website". If I click on this, only then does Firefox actually populate the fields as if I typed them. If I only had to this once or twice or day, this wouldn't bother me. But I have to do this 20 or more times a day. The extra needed mouse-click is annoying because it used to behave differently, as I described above. In settings, I do indeed have "autofill logins and passwords" checked. If I uncheck it, the only difference is a generic "account name" label appears where I should type my username (I assume this is Filemaker's prompt). I can still click on it and Firefox offers to fill it. When "autofill logins and passwords" is checked, the "account name" label does not appear, but the field is still blank and I still must click on it to get Firefox to fill in the info. I have attached an image showing the difference. Again, what used to occur is: when I'd go the webpage, "EH" was already inside the first box. Since I can't seem to get the behavior I want from using the standard "Settings" in Firefox, I'm hoping there's something under "about:config" that one of you experts can direct me to. Thanks in advance for any help!
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Dropa
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Have you read these setups?

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/control-whether-firefox-automatically-fills-forms https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/autofill-logins-firefox

redunzl
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Indeed I have. It was scouring over that information and thinking that if the following is true: -"Autofill logins and passwords" is checked -"Remember search and form history" checked - My username and password for the webpage is NOT already populating the required fields when the page loads - If I hit the down arrow to highlight the "From this website" pop-up that Firefox is providing, the fields do get filled in - The previous behavior was that the fields were already "auto-filled" so all I had to do was click "sign in"

...then I must be missing something. I don't want to have to click the down arrow everytime to autofill. I want the fields to already have this info in them. This is why I asked for help here.

The behavior reminds me of visiting a webpage where perhaps multiples logins have been used in the past, so Firefox asks me which one I want to use presently, via however many needed down arrow keypresses to highlight the correct login. That behavior makes sense. When there's only one username:password stored for the this particular website (which I verified by clicking on the "Saved Logins..." in Settings), the down arrow press just to get the fields to actually autofill is not needed, and indeed, I never had to do before using CCleaner, which obviously changed SOMETHING.

Thanks for the reply.

I'll hopefully hear more suggestions, but if not, I'll just go "nuclear" and delete all saved form data, website history, cookies, etc.... Overkill I know, but I bet it fixes the issue.

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