> When someone says passwords are ‘stored’, the assumption will always be ‘stored on disk’. ‘stores in memory’ is not an accurate representation

I mean, sure, if you literally ignore the words "in memory", but by that logic you could argue that "Microsoft Edge stores" is misleading because it sounds like it's talking about retail establishments that sell the web browser, which is equally nonsense. I don't find it plausible that you think most people would see "stores in memory" would mean "stores on disk" unless you think that they don't understand the difference between memory and disk, at which point I don't think that they would be here to misread the headline.

especially when the point of a password manager is to stick a plaintext string into a webpage, which then transmits the plain text to a remote server. passwords are just not a very good solution to keeping secrets.