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Today’s Web is highly personalized. If you take a look at a lot of today’s top Web sites, you’d be hard-pressed to find one that doesn’t allow some sort of personalized experience. From posting photos to customizing your homepage to your banking, your online identity is an important piece of the Web experience.
The experience of signing up and connecting to sites, however, is stuck in time: Consider that the way that we use usernames and passwords to log on to most web sites hasn’t changed in more than a decade, even while the number of unique businesses and services that we use online has increased dramatically.
Even new technologies such as OpenID still require a similar (and sometimes even more confusing) experience. Browsers have evolved slightly to try to cope with the situation by remembering usernames and passwords, but browsers are currently unable to do much more, because so much of the process is different for each site.
What we are doing
As part of the Mozilla Labs Concept Series, we’re actively exploring new approaches to online identity management in the browser. We envision a world where your browser will play an even more active and critical role in helping you control and shape your online experience. Read more about Mozilla Labs’ online identity concepts.
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<h2>Connect as a first class action in the browser</h2> <p>Today’s Web is highly personalized. If you take a look at a lot of today’s top Web sites, you’d be hard-pressed to find one that doesn’t allow some sort of personalized experience. From posting photos to customizing your homepage to your banking, your online identity is an important piece of the Web experience.</p> <p>The experience of signing up and connecting to sites, however, is stuck in time: Consider that the way that we use usernames and passwords to log on to most web sites hasn’t changed in more than a decade, even while the number of unique businesses and services that we use online has increased dramatically.</p> <p>Even new technologies such as OpenID still require a similar (and sometimes even more confusing) experience. Browsers have evolved slightly to try to cope with the situation by remembering usernames and passwords, but browsers are currently unable to do much more, because so much of the process is different for each site.<span id="more-3488"></span></p> <h2>What we are doing</h2> <p><a href="https://mozillalabs.com/conceptseries/identity"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-3464" title="identity-concept-series" src="http://mozillalabs.com/files/2010/03/identity-concept-nologo1.png" alt="identity-concept-series" width="180" height="150"></a><br> As part of the Mozilla Labs Concept Series, we’re actively exploring new approaches to online identity management in the browser. We envision a world where your browser will play an even more active and critical role in helping you control and shape your online experience. <a href="https://mozillalabs.com/blog/2010/03/online-identity-concept-series/">Read more</a> about Mozilla Labs’ online identity concepts.</p> |
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