Comment 10 for bug 486284

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In , Dveditz (dveditz) wrote :

This is a regression from Firefox 2.0.0.x which correctly truncates the autocomplete data at the maxlength.

> I believe this is quite a critical issue, as most developers rely on
> the size of the strings that are provided by the limited input fields.

That would be unwise. Hackers are not constrained by the maxlength limit and would love to find that exceeding it throws your server for a loop.

Mike: did anyone re-work autocomplete for FF3? I assume the awesomebar is its own thing and not built on autocomplete but that could be wrong.