What do the “Fetch Wallet” options when opening a Ripple wallet mean?

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When I open a Ripple account, I can choose to fetch my wallet from

What does this mean? Can someone elaborate on the differences, and when is each option appropriate?

Are there still 2 people voting to close ripple questions, despite being consensus on meta that they are in-topic? How childish they are?
@Lohoris - not just voting to close, but without identifying themselves...
@StephenGornick - why don't you come talk about it here? meta.bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/335/…
@Lohoris - of course he has the right to vote to close, it's just childish and futile to insist on doing this if the vast majority will disregard it.
If others join me and Ripple questions continuously get closed then maybe the topic of what the community wants here gets revisited. Incidentally, I want Ripple to succeed. I just want the Bitcoin SE to remain the Bitcoin SE.

Vahe Hovhannisyan · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-20 09:54:01Z

"Payward, Local Browser" tries to fetch your wallet from Payward and if an account has not been found or if the Payward is not available / you are offline, it tries to fetch the wallet from local storage.
"Payward" only looks in Payward.
"Local" only looks in local storage.

P. S. You've set where to save your wallet in https://ripple.com/client/#/register right after the "Create Wallet" button.

You can store your encrypted wallet in Payward server, and access it everywhere, not only from your local machine.

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