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Comment on Ask HN: Why do you disable HTML form autocomplete?

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Recent releases of IE and Chrome now, unfortunately, ignore the "autocomplete=off" setting. Being required to fill it in each time is annoying, but it is surprisingly easy for an exploit to get the browser to cough up the credentials. So it appears that this issue will soon be moot, with all browsers autocompleting regardless.

What I do is to use 1password and paste the password in.

I'm on the latest public Chrome release (39.0.2171.95) and it does not force autocomplete. I also use 1Passsword but for addresses and other non-password fields I use Chrome's autocomplete.

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