Eric,
right now it appears to pop up on every webpage with the specific URL were the field does NOT exist.
Right, that's the intention. It's alerting you of a problem.
Maybe it's the wording. "Notify me when this field can't be auto-populated" implies (to me at least) that PWM will notify me when the specified field exists on the page but PMW could not auto-populate it.
What you're really saying is that the notification means: that PMW cannot FIND the specified field. There are 2 cases where this could be true (as far as I can see): (1) what I was originally complaining about, i.e., the URL matches but I'm not on the logon page; or (2), for whatever reason, the name/id of the specified field has been changed.
I guess that the question becomes, what is the primary purpose of this feature. I don't see it being a substitue for Mozilla's Form Manager (which, aside form the editing problems, works very well for me). I saw it as a way to deal with those problem login pages.
I do need to play more with the "When URL contains" as I've only been entering the same URL in both "when URL contains" and "use this URL" fields...
As for Mozilla, I use it because I like the Suite approach and I install if for a lot of my clients who need both a safe browser and a POP3 email client. I have not tried Thunderbird but with Firefox I found that I needed to add a lot of extensions to get the functionality that comes with Mozilla. I know this is the way Firefox was designed but when I'm supporting 50 plus users I prefer a standard setup and quick install (one program). Firefox/Thunderbird is great for the knowledgable individual users but in a business environment that isn't using Exchange, a single-product integrated-suite is a much better fit.
I know that I'm fighting the inevitable but I'm still pretty pleased with Mozilla. I am looking at Seamonkey (
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/) - according to the website, Seamonkey 1.0 is basically Mozilla 1.8beta cleaned up. If Seamonkey doesn't pan out I will have to eventually go to Firefox.