>>I assume this is saving them in a cookie? I'd much prefer to have the input boxes changed so that the
>>browser can handle the passwords in a (presumably) more-secure way.
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>I really don't understand what you're trying to tell me. Basically, the default is as before. That is a
>temp cookie for as long as the browser remains open. As soon as it is closed, the cookie is not store on
>the disk anymore. As for this addition, anyone who would enable that option in their account would mean
>that they won't have to retype the username and password whenever they start the browser and go to Universal
>Thread. If you don't want it, don't enable the option. So, as before is still supported.

With every other site I log into, the username is plain-text. This allows IE to cache the username and password without any further work on your side. Occam's Razor would seem to apply here...