Monday, September 26, 2011

Stackoverflow.com OpenID for Firefox Mobile Login

The version 1.2.1 of OpenID for Firefox Mobile works on more web pages .e.g. stackoverflow.com

Stackoverflow.com login
You can either use the toolbar icon to start the OpenID flow
OpenID for Firefox Mobile toolbar icon

or you can use the page action to start the OpenID flow.
OpenID for Firefox Mobile page action


Google Accounts Authorization

Stackoverflow.com account creation

Monday, September 19, 2011

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

OpenID for Firefox Mobile Android

OpenID for Firefox is now available for Firefox Mobile (Fennec) on Android.


This screenshot shows the OpenID icon in the toolbar. Tapping the icon inserts the preferred OpenID into the OpenID input field.

The OpenID icon in the toolbar






Installation instructions:
Browse to Addons@Mozilla and install the version 1.2 or newer:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/openid-for-firefox/versions/


"OpenID for Firefox" at mozilla

Add to Firefox
  

Confirm the installation.
Add-on installation dialog
Restart the browser.

Configure Firefox Sync to sync your OpenIDs from your desktop machine to your Android device.

Browse to a site that supports OpenID. e.g.: http://wiki.idcommons.net/Special:OpenIDLogin


The mobile version of OpenID for Firefox does not have all the nice features of the desktop version. You can not (yet) choose between OpenIDs when logging in. I needed a few evenings to adjust to the differences in addon development between the desktop and mobile versions of Firefox. But now I am confident that I can implement an account chooser for OpenIds on Firefox Mobile soon.