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!

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

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

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

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

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

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]

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