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No autofill form option?

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I downloaded the U.S English 64 bit version yesterday. It was a clean install as I was using Vivaldi before then. But I have no Autofill option in Privacy & Security, like it's supposed to be. I checked in about:config and found this:

extensions.formautofill.available type: string value: staged-rollout

Neither the Release Notes, Support pages, or any of the web sites talking about 56 mention anything about autofill form being a staged rollout, just that it's only available in the U.S., which I'm in. Anybody else have it missing, or is it just me? And any suggestions?
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extensions.formautofill.available type: string value: staged-rollout
Note that that config setting name starts with "extension" which indicates that it is not a standard part of Firefox but added to the program by installing an extension. Not sure what you mean about a "staged rollout". Have you installed the extension AutoFill Forms.
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No, what I'm actually talking about is what's on this page:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/au ... ress-forms

You're not supposed to need an extension, it's builtin now. But I don't have it.

I thought the config setting I posted was related to it.
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I think it is there. Have you tried populating a form to see what happens?
Unless something has been changed, that "extension" at the beginning means that it is not related to the built in functionality.
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Only just hit the nightly builds as far as I am aware
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The extensions.formautofill.available in Fx 56.0 replaces extensions.formautofill.experimental which is deprecated.

Bug 1385201 - [Form Autofill] Rename "extensions.formautofill.experimental"
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malliz wrote:Only just hit the nightly builds as far as I am aware
James wrote:The extensions.formautofill.available -- in Fx 56.0 -- replaces extensions.formautofill.experimental which is deprecated.
My About:config Value is "Staged-Rollout" and Clking it changes nothing.
So it will be Added in near future Updates?
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I am just confirming that I have the same issue with Firefox 56.0 not having the "Autofill addresses" capability as stated on https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/au ... ress-forms . This issue has occurred on two separate computers without the Firefox accounts being linked.
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I'm having the same issue. I tried toggling dom.forms.autocomplete.formautofill but it just resets itself back to false.
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dalef wrote:I am just confirming that I have the same issue with Firefox 56.0 not having the "Autofill addresses" capability as stated on https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/au ... ress-forms . This issue has occurred on two separate computers without the Firefox accounts being linked.
I noticed today they added a box at the top of the link saying "This new feature will be rolled out gradually over time, so not all users will see it." So it is a staged rollout, and we just haven't gotten it yet. Maybe in 57?
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fred8615 wrote:
dalef wrote:I am just confirming that I have the same issue with Firefox 56.0 not having the "Autofill addresses" capability as stated on https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/au ... ress-forms . This issue has occurred on two separate computers without the Firefox accounts being linked.
I noticed today they added a box at the top of the link saying "This new feature will be rolled out gradually over time, so not all users will see it." So it is a staged rollout, and we just haven't gotten it yet. Maybe in 57?
I asked in the related bug report, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1380942 and the reply was,
Address Autofill is still under the gradual rollout stage and will proceed on Fx57, so users might not see the feature on day 1 even their Firefox updates to 57.0.
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Using 57 now and still no autofill forms option. Guess I still gotta wait. :(
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See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Featur ... ailability

Modifying the extensions.formautofill.available preference value from staged-rollout to on and then restarting Firefox will enable the feature.
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Alice wrote:See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Featur ... ailability

Modifying the extensions.formautofill.available preference value from staged-rollout to on and then restarting Firefox will enable the feature.
That worked! Thanks.
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