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Device management coming to your Firefox Account
Today we are beginning a phased roll out of a new account management feature to Firefox Accounts users. This new feature aims to give users a clear overview of all services attached to the account, and...
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Managing Push Subscriptions
This article is a continuing series about using and working with WebPush and Mozilla’s WebPush service. This article is not meant to be a general guide, but instead offer suggestions and insight into...
View ArticleWhy WebPush Doesn’t Allow Broadcast
One of the common questions we get working on the Web Push backend team, is “How do I broadcast a Push message to all my customers?” The short answer is, you don’t. In the early days, I used say that...
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Changing your primary email in Firefox Accounts
The Firefox Accounts team recently introduced the ability for a user to change their primary email address. Being one of the main developers to work this feature, I wanted to share my experience and...
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Two-step authentication in Firefox Accounts
Two-step authentication in Firefox Accounts Starting on 5/23/2018, we are beginning a phased rollout to allow Firefox Accounts users to opt into two-step authentication. If you enable this feature,...
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Account recovery keys in Firefox Accounts
The Firefox Accounts team is in the process of releasing a new feature called Account Recovery. Previously, when a user resets their password, they would be given new encryption keys and could...
View ArticleUpcoming WebPush Shield Study
WebPush does more than let you know you’ve got an upcoming calendar appointment or bug you about subscribing to a site’s newsletter (particularly one you just visited and have zero interest in doing)....
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Making Firefox Accounts more transparent in Firefox
Over the past few months the Firefox Accounts team have been working on making users more aware of Firefox Account and the benefits of having an account. This phase had an emphasis on our desktop users...
View ArticleA New Policy for Mozilla Location Service
Several years ago we started a geolocation experiment called the Mozilla Location Service (MLS) to create a location service built on open-source software and powered through crowdsourced location...
View ArticleThe Future of Sync
Intro There’s a new Sync back-end! The past year or so has been a year of a lot of changes and some of those changes broke things. Our group reorganized, we moved from IRC to Matrix, and a few other...
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