Password Storage

[Matt]

Like Firefox Sync, Mozilla F1 should not erase my passwords when
"Never remember history" is checked.

F1 should store my passwords and information the same way Firefox Sync
stores data. When "Never remember history" is checked, Firefox Sync
does not "forget" my keys/passwords. Neither should F1. I think this
would be a great improvement for those of us who do not wish to store
conventional browser data.

[David Ascher]

Thanks for the feedback. We agree that F1 should integrate with Sync,
so that you can store your data in your Sync server (and if you want,
not in the long-term browser storage), and so that F1 is already setup
when you go to your other Sync-enabled Firefoxen.

--david

[Les Orchard]

This has probably been already discussed exhaustively somewhere I
haven't found yet, but:

Are there any plans in F1 for adding one's own services, other than the
set offered at the site?

I'm a chronic collector and sharer of links, so F1 should be a
no-brainer for me. But, it doesn't work with any services I use. (eg.
Google Reader shares, pinboard.in, my own delicious clone, my status.net
installation)

What I've used for years are bookmarklets, both on the toolbar and by
way of keyword shortcuts. I can build and install those for myself,
without relying on a 3rd party to build a service inventory for me.

I'd love it if F1 let me set up services like bookmarklets, if only as
an advanced power-user feature. Maybe not javascript: URLs per se�but at
least templated service URLs with placeholders for title, URL,
description, tags, etc.

Better yet, it would be awesome if I could install a self-authored HTML
widget into the F1 dialog�maybe even as part of an Open Web
Application�but that might be crazy talk.

--
l.m.o...@pobox.com
http://decafbad.com
{web,mad,computer} scientist

[David Ascher]

On 3/10/11 2:03 PM, Les Orchard wrote:
> This has probably been already discussed exhaustively somewhere I
> haven't found yet, but:
>
> Are there any plans in F1 for adding one's own services, other than
> the set offered at the site?

[...]

> Better yet, it would be awesome if I could install a self-authored
> HTML widget into the F1 dialog�maybe even as part of an Open Web
> Application�but that might be crazy talk.
>

open web apps is the answer, not crazy talk at all.

--da

[Shane Caraveo]

I have been looking into a number of methods to support additons to f1.
There are three area's I'm looking at which include:

- standardized oauth based api's with discovery mechanisms and some way
to get oauth keys in an automated fashion. this is lots of effort
- oexchange support. have it working in a branch, the user experience
is less than ideal
- webapps. I'm experimenting with extensibility via webapps now, and
it's the most promising mechanism thus far.

regards,
Shane

On Thu Mar 10 14:03:14 2011, Les Orchard wrote:
> This has probably been already discussed exhaustively somewhere I
> haven't found yet, but:
>
> Are there any plans in F1 for adding one's own services, other than the
> set offered at the site?
>
> I'm a chronic collector and sharer of links, so F1 should be a
> no-brainer for me. But, it doesn't work with any services I use. (eg.
> Google Reader shares, pinboard.in, my own delicious clone, my status.net
> installation)
>
> What I've used for years are bookmarklets, both on the toolbar and by
> way of keyword shortcuts. I can build and install those for myself,
> without relying on a 3rd party to build a service inventory for me.
>
> I'd love it if F1 let me set up services like bookmarklets, if only as

> an advanced power-user feature. Maybe not javascript: URLs per se—but at

> least templated service URLs with placeholders for title, URL,
> description, tags, etc.
>
> Better yet, it would be awesome if I could install a self-authored HTML

> widget into the F1 dialog—maybe even as part of an Open Web
> Application—but that might be crazy talk.

[Matt]

Sounds excellent. Keep up the great work!

[Ian Bicking]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Les Orchard <l.m.o...@pobox.com> wrote:

Better yet, it would be awesome if I could install a self-authored HTML widget into the F1 dialog—maybe even as part of an Open Web Application—but that might be crazy talk.

We considered allowing user-authored wrappers around open web apps, but ultimately we decided it led to too much complexity and a lack of clarity about who was in control of what.  So now you can really only make something into an app if you yourself control the application (i.e., you are the developer).  You for instance could not take pinboard.in and appify it or provide your own implementation of services for it. 

So you could make a web app that itself consumes a public API on another service, but it would be more difficult to provide a light wrapper around an existing service (cross-origin restrictions and whatnot).  If you were clever it might be possible to use forms and several levels of iframe etc, but many stars would have to align to actually pull it off.

  Ian