Wallet.crypto.autocompleteoverride

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The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is wallet.crypto.autocompleteoverride.

This article describes the preference wallet.crypto.autocompleteoverride. To add, delete, or modify this preference, you will need to edit your configuration — do not edit this article.

1 Background
2 Possible values and their effects
- 2.1 True
- 2.2 False
3 Caveats
4 Recommended settings
5 First checked in
6 Has an effect in
7 Related bugs
8 Related preferences
9 See also
10 External links

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Background

Internet Explorer 5 introduced a way for websites to prevent the browser from remembering data entered in form fields, implemented as an attribute on HTML form elements (<input>s). Banks and financial institutions quickly began using this to prevent customersâ€™ usernames and passwords from being stored on computers. In fact, several began blocking Netscape 6 from using their sites because the Mozilla-based browser allowed users to save passwords locally.

In response, support for the attribute was added for Netscape 6.2 and Mozilla 0.8.1. Shortly after support was added, this preference was added to allow the browser to ignore the attribute if autocomplete entries were being encrypted locally.

This preference was originally Suite-specific, as Firefox and Camino use different implementations of form data saving. Camino gained support in version 0.9. Firefox will not support this preference (see bug 245333); a workaround is to use the Remember Password bookmarklet which disables the attribute on a per-page basis.

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Possible values and their effects

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True

Allow the browser to remember data entered in form elements that use autocomplete="off".

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False

Honor the autocomplete="off" attribute and value. (Default)

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Caveats

In Mozilla Suite Wallet encryption must be turned on for this preference to have an effect.
In SeaMonkey, Wallet encryption has no effect on this preference.
This preference has no effect in Firefox.

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Recommended settings

If you arenâ€™t comfortable keeping sensitive usernames and passwords locally on your computer (and you donâ€™t want to accidentally save them via the Password Manager), you may want to leave this preference set to false. Otherwise, this is a convenient way to always save your usernames and passwords, even when websites think you shouldnâ€™t.

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