1392579 - Need an API to identify users

Status: REOPENED

(WebExtensions :: General, defect, P5)

Description

[Vitaly]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:54.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/54.0
Build ID: 20170616112219

Steps to reproduce:

Need an API like this: https://developer.chrome.com/apps/identity#method-getProfileUserInfo.
For this API requires additional "identity.email" permission too.
In Chrome it linked with Google account. For Mozilla I suggest link to Mozilla account.


Actual results:

Now, there are no API to identify user.
I need this to my extension be able use by only listed users.


Expected results:

I can't control using of my extension. That's a corporate extension and by rules I have to admin users list.

Comment 1

[Tomislav Jovanovic :zombie]

We are not implementing Chrome Apps APIs.

Comment 2

[Vitaly]

That's not an Apps API (at least only Apps API) - it's an Extension API (too).
I just need the getProfileUserInfo method implementation. And it doesn't matter with what account it will be linked. Some way which helped me to identify users.

Comment 3

[Andy McKay]

If we did expand the identity API it would be around Firefox Accounts. That's blocked on bug 1320862. I think if that implementation did happen, this might be a possibility. Suggest re-opening and blocking zombie?

Comment 4

[Tomislav Jovanovic :zombie]

In that case, SGTM.

Comment 5

[Vitaly]

I see. OK, will wait.

Comment 6

[Kris Maglione [:kmag]]

(In reply to Vitaly from comment #0)
> I can't control using of my extension. That's a corporate extension and by
> rules I have to admin users list.

I'm not sure how this would help you for that use case. Would you require your corporate users to sign into a Firefox Account when they create their profile?

Comment 7

[Vitaly]

(In reply to Kris Maglione [:kmag] from comment #6)
> (In reply to Vitaly from comment #0)
> > I can't control using of my extension. That's a corporate extension and by
> > rules I have to admin users list.
> 
> I'm not sure how this would help you for that use case. Would you require
> your corporate users to sign into a Firefox Account when they create their
> profile?

I think it's possible. But how can I link my addon with users/group of users? The addon is distributed on corporate site.