Alan Chandler wrote:
In a recent upgrade (last day or two) iceweasel suddenly started
filling in empty text areas with text from a previous visit to the
web site.
...
Does anyone know a way of turning this behaviour off.
Are you talking about form fields? If so then go to the menu
selection [Edit], [Privacy], then under the History section set
"Iceweasel will:" then select one of
Remember history
Never remember history
Use custome settings for history (dropdown)
You probably are asking for Never remember history. You might want
the custom settings with search and form history cleared while
remembering other data.
Read up on it here:
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Form%20autocomplete