Firefox/Projects/AccountManager

Revamp the UX of connecting and disconnecting to sites, adding chrome-level knobs to give the user a consistent point to view and control sign-in status to the current site.

This project is a reboot of the Account Manager Labs project, see that page for more background information.

Drivers

• Dan Mills (Labs lead)
• Alex Faaborg (UX)
• You!

Status

• Starting Out

Goals

• P1 Design chrome to augment and potentially automate existing sign-in and sign-out interactions.
• P1 Implement portions of the Account Management specification required for the chosen design.
• P1 Integrate the current Password Manager heuristics into this design.
• P1 Support for HTTP Auth, cookie-based auth, and OpenID.
• P2 Design and implement chrome to automate account registrations, account management, and profile input.
• P3 Support for querying and displaying information about what sites know about you, and allowing you to "blast out" changes to e.g. mass-update your address on all sites.

Non-Goals

• Greasemonkey-like hacks that work only on one site, except as needed only to demonstrate the potential for the feature.
• Creating new and interesting authentication/authorization schemes.
• Extensive hacking on Password Manager-like heuristics to make it only sort of work on more sites.

Related Projects

• Account Manager Labs project