[Authentication] Proposal for a common secrets handling in webbrowsers

[Michael Leupold]

On Wednesday 15 July 2009 21:04:12 Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:48:37 +0200
>
> Guillaume Martres <smarter3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Le mercredi 15 juillet 2009 20:36:06, vous avez écrit :
> > > >The goal is that browsers share their secrets, so that you can switch
> > > > browsers and still have access to all your secrets.
> > >
> > > This is a difficult target.  I have a feeling that few of the major
> > > players are prepared to change something they don't feel is broken
> > > (even if it is so).
> > >
> > > If you made the secrets mobile you could add value but then you of
> > > course get a much bigger project.
> > >
> > > regards
> > > Anders
> >
> > Yes, I'm aware of that. :P But even if Arora is the only one to implement
> > it, I still think it's a good idea to have it standardized if one day
> > some other browsers decide to look into it.
>
> Fwiw, we might see an implementation for uzbl as well.
> For us the benefit is not so much standardisation, but more about "one tool
> for each job".

Probably Konqueror. I guess if we get it right we'll at least get smaller 
browsers interested. Among KDE users I also see a demand for integration with 
other browsers. Not sure if eg. FireFox would be interested though. That said 
personally Konqueror and Arora would be enough for me :-)

Regards,
Michael
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