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Proposal to convert AMO to use Firefox Accounts

This is very much a work in progress. Feedback encouraged.

Current Traffic

AMO has had 50000 unique successful logins in April and 200000 since the start of the year (stats as of the end of April).

Proposed Flow

This is based heavily on the Marketplace transition to Firefox Accounts.

Other Considerations

• On certain administrative forms and when users try to delete their password we re-prompt for their password. I don't think FxA supports this functionality.

• The AMO forums still talk directly to the AMO database to log in. This has been annoying for a very long time and there will likely be support for moving off this system. Three active proposals include: letting phpbb manage it's own authentication, writing an FxA plugin for phpbb, or moving off of phpbb altogether (likely to discourse).