Use Google Toolbar as a simple Firefox form filler

Jun 27, '07 07:30:03AM

Contributed by: zasky

This may be an obvious hint to power users, but I haven't seen it anywhere else so what the heck. Ever since I switched to Firefox, I've been missing Safari's quick and easy auto-fill feature. True, there are Firefox add-ons, but I've found them either to be buggy or way too complicated. All I want is a simple, no fuss, one-click form filler. Here's a way to get it.

Download Google Toolbar, which includes an auto-fill button. It also comes with several other functions that I didn't want and that take up a lot of screen space, especially on a laptop. To keep things nice and neat, go to View » Toolbars » Customize. Drag the Google autoFill button into your Firefox toolbar. Click Done. Go to View » Toolbars and uncheck Google Toolbar, which will hide it (except for the button you just moved).

Now set up auto-fill. Go to Tools » Add-Ons and click on the Google Toolbar for Firefox add-on. Go to Preferences » Features » AutoFill Settings. Fill in your info. The next time you come across a web form, the fields for name, address, etc., will automatically turn yellow, letting you know that they can be filled in with a single click. As I noted, this is a basic form filler -- it doesn't support multiple names and addresses. But I didn't need anything that complicated, and I suspect a lot of other people don't either.

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