Think of the “leaving a comment” scenario for moment. Whenever you want to leave a comment on a website you need to enter your email address, name and comment on that page. The browser may remember the values for that site the next time you want to leave a comment, but not when you want to leave a comment on another page.

The same is true for sign-up pages where you have to enter your first and last name, email and maybe other information like address, country and phone number.

InFormEnter is an unobtrusive and versatile add-on for the Firefox web browser that can semi-automate the process of filling out forms in the browser. While it does not come with options to fill out forms automatically for you, it can be used to fill out forms semi-automatically.

You basically add text that you use on a regular basis to the add-on, which becomes then selectable whenever you fill out web forms on the Internet.

The add-on supports profiles, so that you can create different profiles for aliases or situations.

You can enable and disable the add-on with a right-click on its status bar icon. When enabled, it will display an icon next to each form on the current website. A left-click on the entry displays the available text phrases and variables that you can enter into the text field.

Options are available to change the markers displayed next to forms on the website which can be handy if they break the page design on frequently visited web pages.

InformEnter is a handy Firefox add-on that can speed up web form entering noticeably in the browser. Firefox users can install the add-on directly from the add-on’s page over at the Mozilla Firefox add-on repository.

Research for disabling that feature on websites with enabled auto focus led to a Greasemonkey user script that would do exactly what we have been looking for earlier today: A script that would automatically jump to the first text field on selected websites without user interaction. A Greasemonkey script for that purpose is great because of the following reasons:

• It is not limited to the Firefox web browser but can also be added to other web browser supporting Greasemonkey or those scripts.
• It can be enabled on specific domains (or all).

A user wanting to install the script needs to download Greasemonkey or a compatible program. Once Greasemonkey or its equivalent are installed the Focus First Textbox script can be added to the web browser. The last step involves adding domain names or strings where this user script should be active on.

A right-click on the Greasemonkey icon in the status bar of Firefox and the selection of Manage User Scripts will open the configuration. Select the Focus First Textbox script from the left sidebar. A click on the Add button next to included pages will open a basic form that can be filled with a domain name.

The script becomes active on newly added pages after reloading them.