The extension Autofill Forms can not work properly on midbrowser

[Zhao Fan]

Bug detailed description:
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The extension Autofill Forms can be installed and uninstalled on midbrowser properly with the author's modified version, but can not work properly on midbrowser. Settings can be configured, but Alt-J shortcut key to fill out forms doesn’t work in MID browser.
The modified version has been uploaded to mozilla addon website: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4775

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[Jimmy Huang (jimmyhuang-deactivatedaccount)]

I patched the the Autofill addon to work in MID browser, please download the patched version here.

http://jimmy-ubuntu.jf.intel.com/public/midbrowser/addons/autofill_forms-0.8.0.3-fx_patched_v1.xpi

[Zhao Fan (fan-zhao)]

Jimmy, I can not see any icon or menu show after the addon is installed, so I don't know how to use it, and I believe common user would also have such problem.

[Zhao Fan (fan-zhao)]

Let me re-open this bug, and if you can not agree, pls. provide the instructions about the usage. Thanks.

[Jimmy Huang (jimmyhuang-deactivatedaccount)]

Fan,

The autofill add-on doesn't install any buttons or menus to the browser itself. To use it, the user basically have to go to Addons->Prefernces dialog of the Autofill extension. Then the user will need to fill in the appropriate user information that he wants to be auto-filled in the Main tab. Then click the Advanced tab and he can configure what shortcut he would want to use to fill. Then when a user goes to a website like www.hotmail.com, or any web forms, then just do Alt-J using the keyboard or shortcut he assigned, the information will be filled in automatically.

I know this sounds a bit complicated, but it is not really a bug, but this is how the add-on is designed to work. What we can do for the MID browser is to add a Auto-Fill button somewhere instead of using the Alt-J keyboard shortcut, so that would be considered a UI enhancement for the add-on. In my personal opinion, I am not sure if that's appropriate, because the MID browser's UI is already so cramed, or we can lower the bug status to LOW and state that this would be a feature request for the extension itself. let me know what you think.

[Jimmy Huang (jimmyhuang-deactivatedaccount)]

The addons are not in POR, and this specific add-on requires modification to the UI layout so that it works properly on MID browser's toolbar, so I am going to change this to be in the wishlist.