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I heard from someone on the Chrome team that the reason that Chrome respects this behavior is that many of these websites will resort to "please use a supported

by habosa 12y ago

I heard from someone on the Chrome team that the reason that Chrome respects this behavior is that many of these websites will resort to "please use a supported browser such as: Safari" tactics if Chrome ignores autocomplete=off. Those were one of the worst parts of the web 5+ years ago and I'd hate to see them come back for FF users.

magicalist 12y ago
hmm, but didn't Chrome start ignoring autocomplete=off for password fields[1]? And Safari was already doing it, and now it's not even an option to turn it back on. [1] https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/chromium-dev/zhhj7hCip5c/PxbtDtGbkV0J https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/chromiu...
- habosa 12y ago
  Hmm interesting, maybe they did. I heard this almost a year ago (Summer 2013) so they could have come around. If 2 or 3 of the major browser vendors would make this move it would put pressure on the webmasters (do people still say webmaster?) to just deal with it.