Just lost 30 min of my life to Firefox
Posted on March 21st, 2008 by .: Adam
If you’re a web developer and you do all your debugging in firefox because it’s a standards based browser, and has the awesomest tool ever (firebug), then you’ve probably had this happen to you too:
You’re playing around with making a form, and you have a drop-down. When you try to pre-pop it with a value, using the selected="true" deal, firefox doesn’t seem to recognize it.
Well, that’s because firefox sees that you’ve already filled in this form and overrides what the code says with what you had in there before. FOOK!
To kill this "feature", put about:config into the address bar and then change browser.formfill.enable = false (just double click on it.
No more frustration!
The
Hah Hah, Fooled you Fox
Effect
Its happened to me.