270352 - When checking box for "do not remember address for future log-in" firefox retains address

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Brian]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

When using hotmail, I have checked the box for privacy for Firefox to not
remember my email address for future login attempts. After logging out of my
hotmail mailbox and subsequently attempting to login, my email addy is already
filled in. My cookie setting are:
check box on "allow sites to set cookies"


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to hotmail.com
2.enter email addy and check box, "do not remember address", login
3.logout, rinse, repeat.

Actual Results:  
My email address is already filled in the login box.

Expected Results:  
should not have had email address used from previous login.

Comment 1

[Ross Shannon]

I don't think this is a bug. The "don't remember my email address for future
logins" checkbox decides whether Hotmail will save a cookie with your email
address in it. You have chosen not to do this. But this doesn't prohibit
Firefox's autocomplete feature from saving some of the form data. That is set
from Options > Privacy.

Comment 2

[Stuart Rogers]

Same thing happens for me (WinXP SP2; all versions of Firefox since 0.9.2,
currently using 1.0). I have also experimented with clearing the Options for
saving form info (i.e., clear all saved form info, and clear the "Save
information I enter" checkbox). Firefox still retains the hotmail address even
after closing and relaunching the program.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Stuart Rogers]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915
Firefox/1.0.7

I can no longer reproduce this bug. Hotmail has changed their log-in screen, and
Firefox now responds according to the choice made in the Hotmail log-in screen.