@Leo: Regarding your query 1: the bug is still there in update notifier. I basically repeated the process in my comment above today, and got the same behaviour. [I have the "remember this password" options unchecked].
@Leo: Regarding your query 1: the bug is still there in update notifier. I basically repeated the process in my comment above today, and got the same behaviour. [I have the "remember this password" options unchecked].