Identity/BrowserID/Addon

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Status

BrowserID Addon
Stage	Draft
Status	In progress
Release target	Beta in Q4
Health	OK
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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

6. User experience design

Faaborg's Mockups Faaborg's Account Sign In mocks

Stage 3: Planning

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

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Rank	999
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Feature list	`
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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. Awaiting performance report from Dietrich. Initial stats show that bundling the addon incurs a performance penalty, but further review is needed to find out what is due to Jetpack and what is due to BrowserID portion. Security review is needed on portions of Jetpack that are going to be used in addon. Addon needs fixed to handle opening multiple Firefox windows. Quality and Security Reviews are needed on addon code.
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	`	`