No, it's not the same thing. When you use Facebook Connect, your browser asks Facebook to provide relevant information to the site you want to sing in. As a res

No, it's not the same thing. When you use Facebook Connect, your browser asks Facebook to provide relevant information to the site you want to sing in. As a result, Facebook knows about which sites you signed in and when. With Persona, you ask the identity provider to sign a proof-of-identity for you, which the browser stores. Then you can use it to sign in to different sites as long as it's valid(it expires after a certain amount of time for security reasons). Your identity provider wouldn't know which sites you signed in. That's why it's called browser-id. So yes, the workflow is almost the same, but it's much better for privacy reasons.