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"To log in, just enter your email address below and click the link that we send you. To log in again, you can save the link and use it directly (you don't have to request a new one)."

In what world is that more usable than "Click here to login with Google / Yahoo"?

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StavrosK has a hybrid auth system -- that's not a part of Persona (née BrowserID). Which is actually kind of cool -- because we use email addresses as identifiers, it's really easy to add Persona support alongside traditional auth mechanisms, and without giving up ownership of your users.

If you want to see a more "pure" Persona implementation, our standard example site is at http://123done.org/ (and you can preview the "Persona" redesign at http://dev.123done.org/).

As for as being as easy for first-time users as "Click here to log in with Google / Yahoo," well, we've got some tricks up our sleeves. Look for a blog post next month at http://identity.mozilla.com/ :)

When are you guys going to add browser support already?!

Also, I love how I can integrate Persona with Django in (quite literally) three minutes, with zero changes to any existing auth mechanism.

Native browser support is slated for Firefox 17, though it'll be disabled by default for a while, much like with our SPDY support. Of course, native support in Gecko is a hard requirement for our Boot2Gecko phones, and the first big code freeze for that is rapidly approaching (mid-August, IIRC?), so it's absolutely on its way!

BrowserID is horribly complicated. Even to log into Mozilla's own Web Apps store. I had to remember my browser id, wait, enter it again and then enter a password. Why are there more steps to something so simple. It's for these reasons that no one wants to adopt these things.

Err, click the "BrowserID" button. Those are two separate auth mechanisms.

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