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Last edited Tue Oct 24, 2023, 03:48 PM - Edit history (1)

The people who requested that we remove it were having trouble turning off auto-complete in their browsers. Since there is a way to turn auto-complete off via code, we decided to do that.

But perhaps this should be situational. Currently auto-complete is only turned off on post forms -- when you're starting a new OP or reply, the subject line will not auto-complete. In that situation, I don't think auto-complete is necessary. It must surely be pretty rare for someone to want to write the same subject line enough times that they need auto-complete to do it for them. In the vast majority of cases, people are going to be writing something new in the subject line box.

However there are other situations where it might be more useful to keep auto-complete, for example, on the Advanced Search page. In that case, I think it would probably be much more likely for someone to search for the same thing more than once.

As of now we're going to leave things the way they are, with auto-complete turned off only when entering post subject lines. We'll leave it turned on everywhere else, but this is something we can look at on a case-by-case basis in future, if necessary.