I need a 'Firefox account'? What's that? 'an identity provider that provides authentication and user profile data for Mozilla cloud services.... give us a pre-

I need a 'Firefox account'? What's that? 'an identity provider that provides authentication and user profile data for Mozilla cloud services.... give us a pre-existing email address and choose a password.' Uh, yeh, no thanks ... been down that road before. (I didn't like cookies right away either.) Gorhill lets us backup far more complex settings without signing up for a UO account.