Identity/AttachedServices

Overview

We want users to have access to their data, in particular the data that forms their web-browsing context (bookmarks, tabs, web apps, passwords, etc.) from all of their devices. This data should be tied to their identity, so that logging into a device is sufficient to connect to all the services the user has previously set up, whether those services are provided by Mozilla or third parties. These are Identity-Attached Services, which, as a whole, we're code-naming MyFirefox. While we figure out what MyFirefox will include, and until we can demonstrate true user value, this is a Mozilla Labs project. If MyFirefox is successful, it will subsume Firefox Sync.

Some early explorations of the issues surrounding this effort are available in this public Mozilla tech talk: http://vid.ly/5x1u5r

Use Cases

(forthcoming)

Code

• Passwords: https://github.com/mozilla/gombot
• Tabs: https://github.com/mozilla/myfx-tabs
• Bookmarks: TBD
• Contacts: https://github.com/mozilla/myfx-contacts
• Backend Server: https://github.com/mozilla/myfx-server

Rough Working Documents

• https://id.etherpad.mozilla.org/myfirefox

Demos

We regularly build demos of working code.

Week ending 2013-01-25

• Tabs: https://vimeo.com/58167504