I have noticed that when Hierarchical select is enabled, Firefox browser form autocomplete stops working for all text fields. I often need to pull up the autocomplete suggestions from Firefox form history while entering node data for convenience. After, disabling Hierarchical Select module, Firefox autocomplete / autofill form history starts working again. I have Hiearchical Select Taxonomy and Hierarchical Select Taxonomy Views enabled.

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wim leers’s picture

wim leers
Location Ghent 🇧🇪🇪🇺
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Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Firefox is to blame: their implementation of that feature is buggy and causes lots of problems with AHAH/AJAX forms.

It's disabled because of that reason in hierarchical_select.js:

  // Turn off Firefox' autocomplete feature. This causes Hierarchical Select
  // form items to be disabled after a hard refresh.
  // See http://drupal.org/node/453048 and
  // http://www.ryancramer.com/journal/entries/radio_buttons_firefox/
  if ($.browser.mozilla) {
    $('#hierarchical-select-'+ hsid +'-wrapper').parents('form').attr('autocomplete', 'off');
  }

If you can live with the bug it causes, you can comment these lines.

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Coupon Code Swap commented

Thanks for the quick response Wim. I never hard refresh a node form I have opened to edit because that in itself causes issues when I go to save the form. I can't wait to try out the bug :D