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I'm not a fan of the way this requires me to set a password for Persona. I'd rather just have one password, my email (gmail) password, and use that.

• Flimm 14y ago
  That's the plan. Mozilla are just waiting on Gmail to cooperate and implement Persona on their side. In an ideal situation, both your browser (eg: Firefox) and your email provider (eg: Gmail) would support Persona. In that case, you don't have to click on any links to prove your email address, you don't have to create a new password, you don't have to trust Mozilla's servers to store a hashed version of your password correctly. The log-in dialog itself with be part of the browser chrome, training users to trust the browser and not the website, which is a good thing. If your browser or your email provider don't support Persona, then Mozilla have provided fallbacks, which require you to click a link in an email and to create a new Persona-specific password.
  • rfk 14y ago
    In the case of gmail, they're note even waiting. There is active development on a gmail-to-persona proxy so that you can authenticate with just your gmail password: https://github.com/mozilla/browserid-bigtent