>>The solution that worked in the current version of Chrome was to use
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autocomplete="new-password"

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>>I haven't tested in other browser versions, though.
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>You may be fighting a losing battle with this one. A fix now may not work on future versions (or other browsers).
>Also it may upset users who *want* autofill to work.
>I'd concentrate on making sure the fields are populated correctly if Autofill is on and let the user be responsible for disabling it if they so wish.....

The problem here is I am creating a new operator and the form already has the operator code populated with 'admin' and password with admin's password. This is definitely not a desired behavior in this particular case.