Comments on: Safari Autofill

By: Miraz Jordan

Miraz Jordan — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 23:28:39 +0000

Armin, websites manage to create all kinds of forms, sometimes using very much non-standard ways of doing things. There may be no ready solution if Safari doesn’t recognise the fields correctly.

Quite honestly though I recommend NOT using the autofill that any web browser provides. Instead the number one app on my Mac is 1Password – it handles all kinds of forms and is way more secure.

See http://mactips.info/2010/12/safe-and-secure-1password-is-my-1-application for more information.

By: armin

armin — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:05:57 +0000

what about a website which is not recognized as username – password?
I use an instantmessaging webclient where I type in 2 logins, but safari won’t save them, autofill does is on the wrong place with a wrong name and without password.

Do you have a solution? All three of the checkboxes are checked

By: Miraz Jordan

Miraz Jordan — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 03:11:45 +0000

Thanks for that pointer Colin. It’s much appreciated.

By: Colin Sutton

Colin Sutton — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:17:05 +0000

I found the solution posted by Russell Pond in 2002 does the trick:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2215171
Open the ‘keychain access’ utility and delete the entries with your old email address. They will disappear from the Safari autofill list when you delete them from the keychain.
Make a note of the websites: they’ll be ones that you might need to log in using your old email to update the address.

By: amanda

amanda — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 03:27:31 +0000

I recently had this problem with the autofill information – i can’t seem to remove certain usernames/passwords. Currently there are 5 that cannot be removed. What do I do?

Please reply soon to my email,
Amanda

By: Miraz Jordan

Miraz Jordan — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 23:24:27 +0000

Kim and Evelyn, although this Tip was about using Safari’s autofill feature, I don’t use it myself.

Instead I use and utterly recommend 1Password: http://agilewebsolutions.com/products/1Password

It keeps all your information for you (securely). I now fill in almost all forms by pressing Command \. Pretty much no typing required.

By: Kim

Kim — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 02:50:47 +0000

I am having the same problem Evelyn. Did you happen to figure it out as yet?

By: evelyn

evelyn — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 04:46:08 +0000

Hi I hope you can help me not to smart on this mac theres three poeple using this before i would go on facebook and I just type the first letter of my name then the rest there but now it does’nt do that I hate typing all of my name can you help me thank you for your time

By: Miraz Jordan

Miraz Jordan — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:57:29 +0000

So glad this helped Clare. :-)

By: Clare

Clare — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:44:18 +0000

Thanks! Moved house 6 months ago and had just kept re-typing everything when AutoComplete filled in my old details. Just updated my Address Book entry. Very helpful.