Comment 66 for bug 610915

(In reply to Karl Fogel from comment #53)
> We changed http://wiki.opensource.org/ from Dokuwiki to XWiki, and in the
> course of this change (I wasn't involved), the wiki superuser account name
> changed from "admin" to "Admin". But Firefox of course still remembers the
> old "admin" username, and force-downcases it when I attempt to log in as
> "Admin". There seems to be no gesture I can make at the form field that
> will cause it to simply leave alone the text I typed.

You can type "Admin", and then click elsewhere to dismiss the autocomplete popup before submitting the form, right?

I just want to make sure I understand the scope of the issue completely. It seems like maybe the worst symptom of this bug could be addressed by avoiding having the Tab key auto-complete the saved value if it differs only in case from what's typed.