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The only bad thing with this new Gmail integration is that it gets more annoying if you have multiple Gmail accounts, or aren't logged in to the Gmail account y
by Skalman 13y ago
The only bad thing with this new Gmail integration is that it gets more annoying if you have multiple Gmail accounts, or aren't logged in to the Gmail account you want to use.
And some things, like using myname+website@gmail.com doesn't work at all.
- callahad 13y agomyname+website@gmail.com should absolutely work -- please file a bug if not: https://github.com/mozilla/browserid-sideshow/issues/new https://github.com/mozilla/browserid-sideshow/issues/new
- Skalman 13y agoHuh - it does work, as you say. I guess I misremembered. EDIT: Now I remember my use case. My email is actually myname+randomstring+website@otherdomain.com, and so I want to sign in with the same randomstring every time. Previously when signing in to Persona with my Gmail email address it would suggest all alternatives, and I'd choose the appropriate one. Now it logs in with Gmail directly instead. Of course, this is such an edge case that it's probably not worth doing anything about. And I can simply sign into Persona with myname@otherdomain.com for the previous functionality.
- Skalman 13y agoYet another use case that's more difficult now: I use randomstring@gmail.com for some sites where I expect to get lots of spam, and then forward email based on some filters.
- callahad 13y agoWe'll switch from proxying via OpenID to OAuth 2 in the next few months, which will make that seamless again thanks to the `login_hint` option to Google's OAuth endpoint.
- trimbo 13y agoI highly recommend using Chrome's multiple user feature to log into your separate gmail accounts. This is the only thing that has kept me sane at the last couple companies where we used Google Apps.
- Skalman 13y agoI use Firefox... and I don't think I wan't to be logged into multiple accounts - it's just that now Persona requires it.
- Amadou 13y agoFWIW - firefox has supported multiple profiles for years, long before Chrome even existed. Run it with the following command-line arguments: -ProfileManager -new-instance That brings up a profile picker/creater. Each profile is isolated, different plugins, different cookies, etc. The only information leakage is when a plugin keeps its own data outside of the profile directory, like Adobe Flash keeps its version of cookies in a per-user directory rather than a per-profile directory.
- Skalman 13y agoOh yeah - I use about 5 different profiles with one main profile. It's not a solution, though: I want to be logged into main@gmail.com and log into other sites with randomstring@gmail.com and I'd prefer to not have to be logged in there at all.