222795 - Auto-complete doesn't work for "www.hotmail.com"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 112208

(SeaMonkey :: Autocomplete, defect)

Description

[Daniel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827

Autocomplete widget refuses to fill in "www.hotmail.com," but works for all
other previously entered addresses.
Happens during new sessions, most of the time.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Close then re-open browser 
2.  Try to type in "www.hotmail.com" (autocomplete must be on)
3.  Auto-complete will not work the first time of that browser session, but will
work if, after typing "www.hotmail.com" and accessing/leaving the site, you type
in the address.



Expected Results:  
Needs to let autocomplete work for said URL!

Comment 1

[Anne (:annevk)]

Confirmed: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031011

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Is this because http://www.hotmail.com is just a redirect and we don't store
those in history?

Comment 3

[Anne (:annevk)]

Correct. Try for example: <http://www.gogle.com/>.

Comment 4

[Daniel]

It _is_ a bug; I don't memorize "http://login.passport.net;" would you?

Comment 5

[Daniel]

Also, another redirect that I use does work.  
http://webmail.csulb.edu/login.pl, which I enter as "webma..." auto-completes
every time.

Comment 6

[Unknown W. Brackets]

This is not a bug, it is something you should complain to Hotmail about.  
Internet Explorer does not store it in auto complete as well. (try it.)

This is the expected behavior when auto directing as it does, and many forums, 
bug trackers, etc. use this to their advantage - thus disabling this feature 
would be undesirable at best.

-[Unknown]

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 112208 ***