Persona is distributed. Today.

Re:Persona is distributed. Today. by wmf on Tuesday March 26, 2013 @07:56PM (#5446835)

Firefox supports Persona and they're not going to support OpenID.

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Re:Persona is distributed. Today. by badida on Tuesday March 26, 2013 @11:45PM (#5447683)

It's worth pointing out that, a couple of years ago, we tried to make OpenID easier through Firefox integration. There was no good way to do it. The OpenID protocol doesn't lend itself to browser mediation. (In addition to the other usability and privacy problems mentioned above.)

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Re:Persona is distributed. Today. by vitno on Tuesday March 26, 2013 @07:59PM (#5446843)

Can you elaborate on that? OpenID was designed to be browser-independent. Persona is essentially a distributed openID with some extra browser integration. Sure Mozilla doesn't support openID, but I'm unsure what you would want them to do...

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Re:Persona is distributed. Today. by wmf on Tuesday March 26, 2013 @08:08PM (#5446897)

Without browser support, you have to type your ID into every site. (I'm ignoring Nascar login because that's not distributed.) With browser support you just click to login and maybe click again to confirm.

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Re:Persona is distributed. Today. by cpeterso on Tuesday March 26, 2013 @11:51PM (#5447704)

Here is a Firefox add-ons to add the missing "browser support":

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/openid-for-fi...

(I have not actually tested this add-on myself.)

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