Will Firefox remember userid values in login prompts even if the "save passwords" checkbox is off?

For background, I work on a very large ecommerce web site that is considering some implementation details of our application-specific "Remember Me" functionality. This is designed to fill in (only) the userid field if the user comes to the login page when they aren't logged in.
What I'm starting to wonder is, is it worth implementing this application-specific feature when most of the browsers, like Firefox, already do something like this?
The password save feature in Firefox attempts to save both a userid and a password. I can see the possibility that some users would prefer that it save and restore the userid, but not the password. In my browser, I have it turned on, so it saves both userids and passwords, but is there a way to configure Firefox so that it only saves the userid? I don't know whether IE or Chrome have similar choices.

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