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Mac IE 5.1 - why no autocomplete like PC version ?
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Join Date: Feb 2002
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My PC at work has Windows XP and IE 6.0. I have autocomplete enabled. For example, IE 6.0 remembers when I type
Z and autocompletes Zeiss in ebay search (or lists all
Z entries and I can choose). This feature works for most web sites.
Why doesn't Mac IE 5.1 offer this feature ? Or does it and I can't find it ?
thanks
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Senior User
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: A mile high, Denver, Colorado, USA
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It should be under Edit - Preferences - Forms AutoFill.
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Wasilla, Alaska
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That's not the same thing. Autocomplete is to store your name, address, cc#, etc. for use in forms. IE autocompletes url's for me, and disabling autofill didn't turn it off.
Use mozilla. Problem solved.
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Senior User
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: A mile high, Denver, Colorado, USA
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In IE 5.1, you have two choices, AutoFill Profile, and Forms AutoComplete. You may have success in Forms AutoComplete.
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We can do this. It's under preferences -> Browser display -> Toolbar settings.
Check the box that says "Use Address Autocomplete".
Works like a charm.
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Whoops, I read your post wrong. I'm an idiot.
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Wasilla, Alaska
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You're NOT talking about the url bar. I don't think that feature exists in any of the Mac browsers.. Maybe omniweb, i've hardly used it.
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Feb 2002
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Thanks to all for the comments. It appears this great Windows IE 6.0
feature ( automatically autocomplete data for all forms, not just URL's) does NOT exist in Mac IE 5.1.
I will hope for an future upgrade.
regards
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Reading, PA, USA
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I regularly turn off that kind of feature in Word, and except for particular information that I want the browser to complete, I'd turn it off in IE as well. I do use the autocomplete personal information stuff cause I hate to fill in all that information every time I enter a dealmac contest
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And that's true too.--Shakespeare, King Lear
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Falls Church, VA
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Check under preferences for "Forms AutoFill".. It works fine for me, but I don't like the feature so I leave it off.
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