271243 - Cookies not cleared properly when requested

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Zev]

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

At the hotmail site, i select "Do not remember my e-mail address for future
sign-in. (Select this when using a public computer.)"
However, when i SIGN OFF hotmail, close firefox and return later, my email
address shows up. When using IE, then email address is properly not there.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to Hotmail.com
2. Do not remember my e-mail address for future sign-in. (Select this when using
a public computer.)
3. Login.
4. Logout.
5. Close FIREFOX
6. Go back to hotmail.com

Actual Results:  
your email address shows up at the sign in form

Expected Results:  
email address should show as "<Type your e-mail address>@hotmail.com"

Comment 1

[4w29q8c02]

Corrected description: The cookies only persist if the user logs into the sites
in question, but not if one simply visits the site but does not log in.

Comment 2

[4w29q8c02]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Corrected description: The cookies only persist if the user logs into the sites
> in question, but not if one simply visits the site but does not log in.

Sorry, was attempting to reply to a different bug but was unexpectedly directed
to this one.  Please disregard the above comment.

Comment 3

[Zev]

Hotmail did something to their website. This seems to work fine no and does not
appear to be a problem anymore.
please close this bug. I tested it on the same machine that i originally used
when reporting it with hotmails new and old site. Apparently, the bug was in
their code on their website.