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Hate Autofill in Safari 5.1

Autofill worked perfectly in v5. You type a few letters and it suggests the various data you've typed into fields of that name before. Now you type a letter, and your only option is add info from the Address Book. Which information? I have 5 email addresses... so I have to type the whole address out -- which is not Autofill.


Does anyone know a way to get it to behave in the previous way?


Thanks very much.

Mac Pro Quad 2.66, Mac OS X (10.5.8), FCP 7.0

Posted on Jul 22, 2011 5:41 PM

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Jul 23, 2011 10:46 AM in response to TildeBee

I have them all checked, but it makes no difference, it still shows as a little box, not the actual information, like it used to. This is defnitely a matter of trying to fix what ain't broken, & now it's broken! They really need to bag this unneeded & cumbersome "update", & go back to what was working perfectly well!

Jul 25, 2011 11:03 AM in response to Mitchell Rose

Yeah I have been having problems too. Seems to inconsistently pick all or just some of the info from the Address Book. I'm especially noticing no "State" info being auto-filled across the board. Also I get it auto-filling my email address on some web sites but not others. Weird. Hope a patch is forthcoming! I'm scanning around the net to see what I can find out.

Jul 25, 2011 11:28 AM in response to Mitchell Rose

I'm not liking this either but there seems to be a way to mitigate this somewhat. If you click the Autofill option in Safari preferences and then click edit next to Using Info From Address Book you'll be taken to your address book entry with check boxes next to the data fields. You can then uncheck the email addresses, phone numbers, etc. that you don't want to be used for autofill.


I agree I preferred the old system where it would recognize the info you were filling in and then just complete it. I haven't tried unchecking the Using Info From Address book. Don't know how it will handle autofill then.

Jul 25, 2011 3:06 PM in response to Mitchell Rose

I overwrote the new App file (in Applications) with the old version and it seems to be working OK. That being said, I've seen in other threads here that there may be problems. So far, all good for me. Had history, recent bookmarks, and auto fill works perfect as before.


My logic was to try it and if it didn't work I'd be no worse off than before and could just reload the 5.1.


So far, no regrets!

Hate Autofill in Safari 5.1

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