Identity/BrowserID/Addon
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Status
BrowserID Addon | |
Stage | Draft |
Status | In progress |
Release target | Beta in Q4 |
Health | OK |
Status note | ` |
Team
Product manager | Dan Mills |
Directly Responsible Individual | ` |
Lead engineer | Shane Tomlinson |
Security lead | Yvan Boily |
Privacy lead | Sid Stamm |
Localization lead | ` |
Accessibility lead | ` |
QA lead | James Bonacci |
UX lead | Alex Faaborg |
Product marketing lead | ` |
Operations lead | ` |
Additional members | Ben Adida, Lloyd Hilaiel, Dietrich Ayala, Myk Melez |
Open issues/risks
- GitHub Issues - GitHub Issues
- Jetpack based addon bundled with Firefox has not been done before.
- Jetpack based addons may cause performance penalty.
- End to end security review needs done on site, addon, and Jetpack.
- l10n needs to happen on on both the site and addon.
- Content in URL bar being driven by content instead of the user or browser.
- Need to address accessibility concerns
Stage 1: Definition
1. Feature overview
The BrowserID addon is a Jetpack based addon that will be bundled with Firefox to provide an in-browser experience for using BrowserID as well as showing user's authentication status in the browser URL bar for sites that support the Sessions API Sessions API
2. Users & use cases
All Firefox users who use BrowserID. This addon provides an in-browser experience for using BrowserID, making phishing and spoofing of the BrowserID site much more difficult.
3. Dependencies
- Jetpack Addon-SDK Jetpack SDK - List of Jetpack Dependencies
- BrowserID BrowserID
4. Requirements
Non-goals
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Stage 2: Design
5. Functional specification
6. User experience design
Faaborg's Mockups Faaborg's Account Sign In mocks
Stage 3: Planning
7. Implementation plan
8. Reviews
Security review
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Privacy review
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Localization review
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Accessibility
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Quality Assurance review
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Operations review
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Stage 4: Development
9. Implementation
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Stage 5: Release
10. Landing criteria
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Feature details
Priority | ` |
Rank | 999 |
Theme / Goal | ` |
Roadmap | ` |
Secondary roadmap | ` |
Feature list | ` |
Project | ` |
Engineering team | ` |
Team status notes
status | notes | |
Products | Signing into the browser concept needs revisited to ensure it matches user expectations. | ` |
Engineering | Lots of work to be done yet. | An alpha version is available on GitHub at Alpha XPI.
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Security | sec-review-needed | sstamm |
Privacy | ` | ` |
Localization | l10n ideas have been talked about but nothing concrete. | ` |
Accessibility | Need to make Sign Into the Browser and BrowserID portions accessible | Should get Marco and David involved. |
Quality assurance | ` | We need to start a QA and test plan. |
User experience | ` | ` |
Product marketing | ` | ` |
Operations | ` | ` |