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This question is related to the explanation on how Firefox handles autocompleting stored logins: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10738090/why-firefox-autocomplete-even-with-different-input-name

I'm a regular user of a site that uses these three fields in its login form.

<input class="field" type="text" name="username" autocomplete="username" id="username">
<input class="field" type="text" name="email" autocomplete="email" id="emailRegister" disabled="disabled">
<input type="password" maxlength="1024" name="password" id="password">

Unfortunately Firefox always uses the field right before the password field as username field for autofill, so it fills the stored username into the hidden email input field.

Is there any way to workaround this so that username gets correctly filled in the username field, e.g. hiding the email field via a filter rule in ublock Origin?

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  • You must have once entered the user-name into a field named email. I suggest to render the field visible (or create a trivial form with such a field), then delete the user-name from the list (link).
    – harrymc
    Commented Apr 25, 2020 at 9:01
  • I already deleted and re-entered the login data (with username being in the username field), but as explained in the linked Stackoverflow question, Firefox always choses the field before to fill in the username data - in my case it's the email field.
    – lmoly
    Commented Apr 25, 2020 at 9:46
  • If Firefox is really that stupid, then you have no choice but to change the order of the fields.
    – harrymc
    Commented Apr 25, 2020 at 9:59
  • I'd do that, but it's a third party site. I wouldn't do s.th. odd like that for sure...
    – lmoly
    Commented Apr 25, 2020 at 10:29
  • You could do that with a Greasemonkey userscript in Firefox. Takes some study.
    – harrymc
    Commented Apr 25, 2020 at 11:48

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This bug is eleven years old in Firefox:
Bug 499223 : Password manager fills logins into wrong / undesired fields.
Three years ago was the last user complaint in that post, which was ignored and never answered.

Therefore I suggest not to waste your time filing a new bug-report with Mozilla.

The above bug-report contains some workarounds, but they all are aimed at the developer of the form, which is not your case.

All I can suggest is to use a Greasemonkey userscript to enable the email field, so as to be able to manually correct the wrong value. Alternatively, you could just force in the userscript the value of the field to be your own email address, rather than the auto-filled one.

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