FireFox capture autocomplete input change event

Question

I'm trying to subscribe to change events on an input tag for an ajax auto complete form. These change events are not firing when the user clicks an autocomplete suggestion from FireFox.

I've seen fixes for IE, but not FireFox. You can view this behavior here

Steps to recreate: type any input in one of the boxes and click submit.

Start typing the value again in the same box.

You should see the autocomplete suggestion box appear below the input box. Notice that clicking the suggestion does not fire the change event (it also doesn't fire the click event)

Currently my only option is to disable autocomplete on this field, but I do not want to do that.

Answer 1

Firefox 4+ fire 'oninput' event when autocomplete is used.
Here's some jQuery to make this more actionable:

$('#password').bind('input', function(){ /* your code */});

Answer 2

I've had the same problem.

Apparently, there is password manager debugging available https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox:Password_Manager_Debugging

So I've found that for me DOMAutoComplete event got triggered and I've managed to attach it sucessfuly to a field via jQuery's bind like

$('#email').bind('DOMAutoComplete',function() { ...