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Sign Into Websites Directly From Your Browser
- vthunder 15y agoAh, yes, silly title. I meant to add "toolbar" at the end of that title, which makes it make a lot more sense. Will fix that shortly on the blog. As for the viewing area, There is one point where the menu goes off to the left side, so I couldn't crop it further (I wanted to keep the window in the center of the video, as well). Anyway, let us know what you all think of the API we are proposing! We really want to see this take off. (I'm the author of the blog post/video btw, in case that wasnt clear!)
- montibbalt 15y agoI can already press ctrl+enter in Opera to sign into any of my accounts after I do it once. So I guess this is a more complex but also more secure way of doing that?
- gcb 15y agowhat's next? click on links directly from your browser?
- sorbus 15y agoThat's one of the worst headlines I've seen recently. It says absolutely nothing about the content of the article, as well as raising many questions - how else would you sign into a website, if not through your browser? That said, BrowserID is, in theory, a cool project, and I wish it well.
- mtogo 15y agoSign into websites from my browser!? That sounds awesome! Hilariously bad title aside, BrowserID and this extension look quite cool and i'm interested to see how they turn out.
- Gullanian 15y agoI can already sign into a website from my browser
- RyanKearney 15y agoWhy is it so hard for people recording screencasts to have the window fill the entire viewing area? Was it necessary to see so much of the guys background?
- blackboxxx 15y agoI'll bet Firefox's plump user base has shriveled up like a raisin since starting this updating schedule to version 7. Using Firefox is annoying. Simply activating the browser becomes this big update/check your plugins song and dance production. Now many of the plugins don't work, and Firefox is still slower than Chrome or Opera. I hope the new login feature makes Firefox worth using again!
- benatkin 15y agoI hope it's not an experiment in the same sense jonathanscard is. It would be nice if they said that even if it fails to catch on they plan on keeping the BrowserID server going for a long while!
- drdaeman 15y agoOverall direction is really good, but I strongly dislike "email as an identity" idea. This suffers from all the problems OpenID has. I've already wrote about this before: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2836754 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2836754