Finally! Doh, I need to install Aurora by now
Introducing Mozilla Firefox Accounts
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Re: Introducing Mozilla Firefox Accounts
#32How long till this is integrated with the main sponsor's unloved child, G+?
I've got more pressing matters than yet another account with personal information and data kept in the US ...
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#33I hope Firefox will implement multiple accounts within the browser, similar to Chrome multiple accounts. If it is backed by Persona, then I will be able to have web sessions based on email accounts from different providers.
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#34How long till this is integrated with the main sponsor's unloved child, G+? I've got more pressing matters than yet another account with personal information and data kept in the US ...
Mozilla is an independent non-profit organization. Yes, they do get a lot of revenue from Google - but they do not control Mozilla.
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#35I have no problem with Mozilla doing this so long as its not pushed down my throat. I have no desire to use a cloud service.
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#36How long till this is integrated with the main sponsor's unloved child, G+? I've got more pressing matters than yet another account with personal information and data kept in the US ...
Mozilla has been sponsored by Google since long ago, but they always thought about people first. In fact, if you don't trust them you can run your own sync server in whatever country you like.
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#37Love 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/
Personally, I would really hate to have to setup and manage yet another account just to pair a sync a desktop and phone browsers.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Click on "same browser-based encryption". It's a link to an earlier blog post where they explain the encryption methods used in Firefox Sync. It mentions end-to-end encryption, too.
As Mozilla is a US-based organization, is anyone afraid of the NSA/USG commandeering Mozilla to setup pen-register/password-interception a la Lavabit? Only a couple of months ago comments like mine would have been passed off as tin-foil conspiracy. Now, I think everyone's sense of normal is now tightly wrapped in tin-foil, encased in lead.
Opposite to Lavabit, Mozilla can't decrypt your data, so I can't see this happening, unless they change the open source client code without anyone noticing.
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#39I have no problem with Mozilla doing this so long as its not pushed down my throat. I have no desire to use a cloud service.
While they can, of course, do whatever they want, I am disappointed by the development of unnecessary peripheral functionality such as this.
I think that the resources put toward this endeavor could have been better spent on improving the performance of Firefox, or perhaps reducing its memory usage, or even fixing the numerous bugs that affect it. Firefox isn't as bad as it once was with respect to those things, but there's still much room for improvement.
Functionality that's useful to a comparatively small number of users should be prioritized well behind core functionality that affects basically all Firefox users.
Re: Introducing Mozilla Firefox Accounts
#40Does anyone know if there will be a standalone client library for this API?
I build an iOS browser that works with the old sync api and building a client on my own is probably a bad idea