14 DAY TRIAL // Mozilla is getting closer to bringing its single sign-in technology to fruition with the launch of the second beta for Persona. The technology is already quite capable and completely usable, but there's always more to do.
Persona Beta 2 builds on the iterative updates of the past few months as well as one big new feature Identity Bridging with support for Yahoo accounts.
"The goal of Persona is simple: we want to eliminate passwords on the Web. This release, packed with performance improvements and new features, brings us another big step closer to that goal," Mozilla explained.
"In particular, we’ve made it easy for users with existing Web accounts to log in without creating a new account or password," it added.
Visitors can now sign up and log into a site with their existing Yahoo credentials meaning that they don't have to create a new user name and password.
If you're already logged into your Yahoo account, all you'll have to do is approve the connection and you're done, you don't even need to type in a password.
"Websites that use Persona benefit from this improvement immediately: hundreds of millions of Web users are now ready to log in with just a few clicks," Mozilla added.
That's great, but it's hardly unique to Persona. What Mozilla brings to the table is a focus on the users and privacy.
Because Mozilla isn't looking to gain anything from people using Persona, you can be sure that your data is safe and not shared with anyone. All the while you also have full control over what you share and with whom.
Mozilla plans to add team up with more webmail providers for Identity Bridging in the future. Behind the scenes, websites can become a Persona Identity Provider, making it possible for credentials created there to be used on any site that implements Persona.
