1. Ben Adida on BrowserID and identity

    • by Tristan Nitot • Feature, Featured Article, Identity, Mission:Mozilla • 9 comments

    This is the second installment of Mission:Mozilla, a series of interviews that link Mozillians, the technology they produce and the Mozilla mission. Today Ben Adida is in the hot seat to discuss BrowserID, Mozilla’s identity initiative. Tristan Nitot – Hi Ben, can you briefly introduce Read more…

  2. Mozilla Hacks Weekly, September 22nd

    • by Robert Nyman • HTML5, Identity, Mozilla Hacks Weekly, Uncategorized • No comments yet

    It’s Thursday, and time for reading suggestions from the Mozilla Developer Engagement Read more…

  3. Mozilla Hacks Weekly, August 18th 2011

    • by Robert Nyman • Developer Tools, HTML5, Identity, Mozilla Hacks Weekly, Web Developers, WebGL • 2 comments

    It’s Thursday, folks, and you know what that means, right? It’s time for Mozilla Hacks Weekly, with recommended reading from the Mozilla Developer Engagement Read more…

  4. Introducing BrowserID – easier and safer authentication on the web

    • by Robert Nyman and Chris Heilmann • Identity • 15 comments

    Security on the web is more important than ever. Almost weekly reports of exploits of information and leaks into the public make it hard for a lot of people to trust the internet. One of the main annoyances is that every service expect us to Read more…

  5. An interesting way to determine if you are logged into social web sites

    • by Chris Heilmann • Identity, JavaScript, Research, Security • 14 comments

    Do you remember the trick how to find out that you went to certain web sites by analysing link colour (now patched in Firefox)? There is much your browser tells about you if you just create a few HTML elements. Mike Cardwell has found an Read more…

  6. Getting involved with Account Manager

    • by Dan Mills • Firefox 4, Identity, Standards • 6 comments

    It’s been a couple of weeks since we originally posted about Account Manager and we’ve gotten a lot of feedback. We’ve got a few opportunities for people to get more involved with the project, listed below. Join us at the Account Manager Meet-up or at Read more…

  7. Account Manager coming to Firefox

    • by Dan Mills • Firefox, Identity, Security • 74 comments

    Update: The Account Manager is no longer maintained. Building on this experiment, we have conceived BrowserID. Please consider using it instead. Last month Mozilla Labs announced a new concept series on online identity. As part of this exploration, we developed the Account Manager. The Account Read more…