Mozilla and Hotmail

On just about every site which requires a name and password, which is just about every site LOL, Mozilla offers to save the name and password.

On Hotmail, it doesn't. Is this a peculiarity of Hotmail? Is it designed to thwart Mozilla's password memorization?

 

Your post got me curious. I recently installed Mozilla 1.5 on a 98SE machine. Just typed in hotmail.com and got the login screen.
My username was already filled in, first visit using Mozilla. All I have to do was insert the password. I logged in, choosing the option to automatically log in, and got in.
I then closed that tab.
Went back to hotmail in another tab, was immediately logged in.
EDIT:
I logged out, closed the tab, opened another, and was not automatically logged in, but the username was there.
But like you, Mozilla did not prompt me to save.

 

Must be a security thing.

 

No, it's not a security thing, believe it or not older builds of mozilla/netscape did the same thing. For example, when I log into www.excite.com (it's a personal portal where you can pick out the layout of the page and what news content to view, similar to yahoo.) It does not ask to remember my password and username with the password manager. I have a feeling it's the way the pages are coded and why mozilla/netscape can remember some login data, but not others.

Another site that does this is my bank log in site.

I use Netscape 7.02. Compact