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Firefox Accounts is a consumer account system which provides access to services run by Mozilla, such as [https://marketplace.firefox.com/ Firefox Marketplace] and the [https://wiki.mozilla.org/User_Services/Sync next version of Firefox Sync]. A user can sign in with a Firefox Account to all her "Foxes": Firefox on Desktop, Firefox for Android, and Firefox OS. Signing into a Firefox browser or device gives the user access to integrated Mozilla Services on that browser or device that requires authentication (e.g., Firefox Sync). Longer term we envision that non-Mozilla services and applications will be able to delegate authentication to Firefox Accounts.
Firefox Accounts from a literal, technical perspective is not much to look at. It's a thin service that does currently only a few things, e.g.,
* It allows users to create a Firefox Account.
* User id
* Sync encryption keys
* Whether the user has accepted the ToS and PP
* A log of security events about the user (from where and when logins, passwords resets, etc. happen), and from what devices the user is currently logged in.
Firefox Accounts on it's own is boring and useless. Firefox Accounts is only as interesting and valuable when you start attaching as the services attached to it, like Firefox Marketplace, Where's My Fox, and Firefox Sync. These services will manage their own data, but rely on Firefox Accounts for single sign-on and related authentication services.
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