Introducing Mozilla Firefox Accounts

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Post by ibsathish » Sat, Feb 08, 2014, 4:23 AM UTC

Introducing Mozilla Firefox Accounts
blog.mozilla.org

Re: Introducing Mozilla Firefox Accounts

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Post by SkyMarshal » Sat, Feb 08, 2014, 5:58 AM UTC

Getting a 404 on the linux dl link for FF Auror, required to test this new feature:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/lates...

Same with all the English (US) versions in fact. Other languages appear to work.

Re: Introducing Mozilla Firefox Accounts

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Post by yeukhon » Sat, Feb 08, 2014, 6:01 AM UTC

I have to dig this up (sorry Brian, your talk was awesome and visually easy to get involved; kudos to identity team)

http://people.mozilla.org/~bwarner/warner-rwc2014/#/

Re: Introducing Mozilla Firefox Accounts

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Feb 08, 2014, 6:09 AM UTC

SkyMarshal wrote: post #2

Getting a 404 on the linux dl link for FF Auror, required to test this new feature: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/lates... Same with all the English (US) versions in fact. Other languages appear to work.

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Re: Introducing Mozilla Firefox Accounts

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Post by heycam » Sat, Feb 08, 2014, 6:14 AM UTC

SkyMarshal wrote: post #2

Getting a 404 on the linux dl link for FF Auror, required to test this new feature: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/lates... Same with all the English (US) versions in fact. Other languages appear to work.

Try http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/lates... instead. Not sure why the Aurora landing page is not using the right link.

Re: Introducing Mozilla Firefox Accounts

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Post by mcpherrinm » Sat, Feb 08, 2014, 6:21 AM UTC

I'm really disappointed this doesn't authenticate against Persona. Supporting Persona in Firefox seems to be pretty slow coming, and this seems like a big blow against having that smoothly integrating it.

Re: Introducing Mozilla Firefox Accounts

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Post by mnordhoff » Sat, Feb 08, 2014, 6:23 AM UTC

heycam wrote: post #5

SkyMarshal wrote: post #2

Getting a 404 on the linux dl link for FF Auror, required to test this new feature: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/lates... Same with all the English (US) versions in fact. Other languages appear to work.

Try http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/lates... instead. Not sure why the Aurora landing page is not using the right link.

The version number was bumped, like, yesterday. Probably just an oversight or a cached web page.

Re: Introducing Mozilla Firefox Accounts

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Post by BorisMelnik » Sat, Feb 08, 2014, 6:37 AM UTC

Love it. I abandoned the old sync. Figuring out how to set it up was more difficult than trying to learn Julia.

Only thing I didn't love was the icon, but its beta so hey.

Link to Aurora nightly:

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla-aurora/

Re: Introducing Mozilla Firefox Accounts

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Post by johnchristopher » Sat, Feb 08, 2014, 7:44 AM UTC

Will I be able to use a Firefox Account in Google chrome ?

Re: Introducing Mozilla Firefox Accounts

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Post by chuckharmston » Sat, Feb 08, 2014, 7:49 AM UTC

mcpherrinm wrote: post #6

I'm really disappointed this doesn't authenticate against Persona. Supporting Persona in Firefox seems to be pretty slow coming, and this seems like a big blow against having that smoothly integrating it.

Some background about the relationship between Persona and Firefox Accounts:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Identity/Firefox_Accounts

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.mozillians/pv5VN2dNY...

tl;dr: it's coming, and this is an important engineering milestone on that path. I'm sure Lloyd and callahad will be chiming in with more details.

(Source: Mozilla employee, not on the Identity team)