746229 - Cannot sign into Persona using native Marketplace app

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 729853

(Firefox Graveyard :: Webapp Runtime, defect)

Description

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

Assuming the user installed the Marketplace app from the Marketplace website, the user would end up needing to log into Persona again from the native Marketplace app.

I thought one of the goals was that apps wouldn't need to require users to log in because apps are associated with a Persona account anyway. ?

Comment 1

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

Sounds like I was wrong expecting auto-logged-in-ness to a Persona account for a given app.

Either way, bug 746217 prevents any popup windows from opening and bug 729853 is for different-domain popups.

One potential solution is to have Persona detect exceptions on window.open and fall back to an iframe login approach.

Although I'm not sure if Persona had a requirement of non-in-content/lightbox-like login flows.. ?

Comment 2

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

Is this a duplicate of bug 729853? This issue I think gets fixed if bug 729853 gets fixed.

Comment 3

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

Bug 729853 (or bug 746217) could be one way to fix this. Another way is to have Persona fall back to an in-content login flow if window.open fails. This bug is tracking the desired log-into-Persona functionality.

Comment 4

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

Let's duplicate against bug 729853, given that browser ID (persona) follows this functionality for "pop-ups" throughout anyplace that uses it. The other option is at the choice of the browser ID team.