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Safari 5.1 and AutoFill problems.

Anyone else having issues with using AutoFill with 5.1? I have tried a couple times on differnent sites and it is grabbing the wrong info. Address Book info is correct and it worked great before the update.

MacBook Pro; Mac Mini; ïŁżTV Classic; 3GS iPhone, Mac OS X (10.6)

Posted on Jul 21, 2011 5:21 AM

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Jul 21, 2011 7:20 AM in response to Carolyn Samit

Thanks for the suggestion, I tried and still no luck.


I guess I should have had more detail in my first post. The problem seems to be handling multiple information in vcards (home and work address, 4 email addresses, etc), it will grab the home address but work city and so on. Just doesn't seem well thought out in 5.1, worked much better before.

Jul 25, 2011 11:52 AM in response to Bickity

In Safari preferences at Autofill if you click edit by the Using Info From Addressbook you will be taken to your addressbook entry. There you will see check boxes by all the data fields. I have several email addresses and phone numbers that I don't wnat used for entry on forms. I unchecked those which seems to have improved things.


However I preferred the old way where Safari would recognize what you're typing in and just finish it for you.

Aug 5, 2011 1:55 PM in response to Bickity

When filling out a form that starts with, my name for instance, autofill defaults to the wrong address. I tried unchecking entries in my address book but it still selects my work address to autofill. I only have my work address and home address. Home address is the only one selected.

If, however I skip down to my address and start typing the correct address, then it will fill the correct information.

Aug 6, 2011 7:41 AM in response to Timiambeing

It seems there are sveral issues that might warrant shooting😁😁 But I agree about the autofill. The concept is good IF you could actually select the data fields in your address acard that you wanted to use.OR it gave you a selection in that pop up window of the info so you could pick the ones you want. I use 1Password for some of these things and if it has multiple log in info you have the option to click the one you want. At least in Safari if you just start typing in the field it recognizes what you're typing and completes it for you. But as I said I think there are multiple issues in Lion that need to be addressed.

Sep 18, 2011 7:49 AM in response to Bickity

Safari 5.1 is worse than 4, period. Autofill used to be very nice. Now it pops up a dialog box and makes me select myself and then fills in all kinds of incorrect information. For example, it fills in a field on the web page asking for id and password with my last name. Now this is a web page that has a section for my existing credentials and a seperate section to create an id if one has none. Autofill used to work fine, filling in my credentials. Now it fills in the entire page and, of course, that isn't right.


Apple, please bring back the old code!

Oct 17, 2011 5:55 PM in response to SpaceSimian

The primary problem isn't that it can't find correct info. It's that it no longer fills in forms automatically. You used to be able to type, for example, the first letter of your name in the Name field of a form; it would complete the field for you. Then you could hit Tab and it would fill in all of the other fields on the form (or at least most of them), using either info from your Address Book entry or from the Other Forms data. I could fill a form out in less than 2 seconds.


Now it requires you to click on a pop-up box or perform some other procedure and it won't fill in forms correctly unless they conform to your Address Book entry (which is not always what you want).


This feature worked perfectly in every Safari version through 5.0.5; they broke it in 5.1 and it's still broken.

Safari 5.1 and AutoFill problems.

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