DEV Community

Cover image for Firefox address autofill
Michal Bryxí
Michal Bryxí

Posted on

Firefox address autofill

This might be news for some, but Firefox does not have all the features available for all the geographical locations. The reason for this is nothing malicious I would say, it's simply because i18n is hard.

So I was quite surprised to learn that there is no address autofill available in my Firefox installation. Something so convenient I can't imagine using web browser without it.

After a little bit of research I found a lot of outcries [1,2,3] on the Mozilla support forum, some generic help pages that briefly mentioned that this feature is US only [4] and finally a little bit more useful wiki with proper breakdown of the feature availibility [5].

So the way to enable form/address autofill for non-US country is:

  1. Put into address bar about:config and click Accept the risk and continue
  2. Search for following and set:
    • extensions.formautofill.available: on
    • extensions.formautofill.creditCards.available: true
    • extensions.formautofill.supportedCountries: GB (this settings depends on where you live - check ISO 3166)
  3. Restart firefox
  4. Check on the somewhat official Firefox address autofill demo that the feature works for you

Firefox address autofill

Top comments (1)

Collapse
 
ristein profile image
ristein

extensions.formautofill.addresses.supportedCountries