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A seemingly minor issue got me really worried about the future of the Chrome monopoly.

For some reason, some developer/product manager at Chrome decided to ignore `"autocomplete"="off". This reeks havoc with the 100s of JS autocomplete addons out there when chrome autocomplete pops up over the custom built on.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12374442/chrome-ignores-...

Seems like there's no resolution yet, aside from a stream of ridiculous hacks that all tend to break at one point or another.

If Google wants to own the browser, they are going to need a more transparent process on these things. It affects everyone now and they have to start governing their changes more appropriately.



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