Autofill has stopped working in the sky yahoo compose cell

[harryfive]

I am using Firefox with Sky Yahoo for my emails.  A few months ago the autofill worked well in the compose cell,  just typing in the first two letters of the email address would bring up a list of possible emails for me to chose from, and also associated email addresses.

I have tried retyping the whole email address again manually and sending a new email to the recipient, not from the contacts list, but it still does not autofill the next time I want to send them an email.  Most of the email addresses that I use are still in the contacts , top and all , but finding some of them takes a bit of time as they are using complicated addresses.   What is happening ?.   This was a good system, but has now lost a valuable setting somehow ?.  Can I get autofill back either from receiving an email or sending one ?. 

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[Mark39]

It might be the result of a Firefox add-on you're using. The Duck Duck Go privacy add-on seems to be the culprit for several malfunctions.

It's not an issue with Sky Yahoo Mail itself.

[jayach]

Try using a different browser. If it works there it may be a problem with the cache in Firefox, so try clearing that.

[harryfive]

sorry for long delay.   I have tried Microsoft Edge , it is the same,  the autofill picks up on the first letter that I type in from the first 5 or so random addresses that contain the first letter somewhere in their email address.  i.e.   if I type in a j  it will also show an email address like fredjblogs@     from several years ago but the addresses  it picks up are not the most recent or most used .   It also ignores addresses on a list, in case I want to email one person from a list.  

[jayach]

Yes, it seems to work the same for me.

It seems to get the addresses from emails that have been sent to you (i.e. from your inbox) but doesn't get those in your sent emails or contact list.

Typing a couple of extra characters narrows down the options.

If you want to use addresses in your contact list, it's probably easiest to have that open and select from there. 

Personally I use an app/client for emails, it much more intuative.