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by technimad 1974 days ago
As a user I really don't like sites disabling autofill. In this case, you make me type my address, because you want to use one address field. A better solution would be to detect safari, and present multiple fields, which will be autofilled. You can then concatenate these fields in the backend to whatever you like.
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As a user I hate it even more when my browser pops in an unwanted auto-complete dropdown obscuring a contextually-better and integrated auto-complete provided by the website, where it's obvious the website tried to suppress the native auto-complete but that broke at some point thanks to browser vendors thinking they know better than the wider developer community, and now there's two competing dropdowns both trying to do different things. I wish vendors would respect the HTML standard and stop thinking they can machine learn the website to guess what the user wants.

Case in point: CRM system with address fields for records. Chrome, I don't want to put my freaking address when I'm updating a customer address, nor do I want to save every customer address I add to my browser's address book.

Came here to say this. Bane of my life - typing in an address, then I go to click the site-provided dropdown and, simultaneously, the browser inserts its own dropdown over the top with the wrong address on it. So I end up having to delete the incorrect address and start over.