Mozilla Persona (AKA BrowserID) is exciting stuff. However, it doesn't seem to have changed much since the last time it hit Hacker News [0]. There are websites

Mozilla Persona (AKA BrowserID) is exciting stuff. However, it doesn't seem to have changed much since the last time it hit Hacker News [0]. There are websites that have chosen Persona as an authentication method. We now need to see the following two pieces implemented: - It needs to be implemented in the browser's GUI, like in this old screenshot [1]. People will be able to see the usability and security benefits of having a standardised way to log in that's built-in into the browser. Could we at least have a Firefox extension or a nightly build of Firefox that does this? - At least one email provider needs to be a Persona "ID provider", which would eliminate the need to create a Persona password and to click on a link in an email. My guess is that getting Gmail to support this would be slow work, why not try persuading smaller email providers like Fastmail to be the first to openly support Persona? Fortunately, Persona does work even without these two pieces, using fall-back servers and a shim. But most of the benefits of Persona are only valid once the browser and the email provider deliberately support it. [0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2764824 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2764824 [1] - http://i50.tinypic.com/2ptyv80.jpg http://i50.tinypic.com/2ptyv80.jpg