• Information Week, Friday, August 9, 2013 2:41 PM

Mozilla's online authentication tool Persona is now available to Gmail users, allowing Gmail users to sign into the Mozilla browser's Persona browser ID using their email account. Creating a Mozilla Persona account allows users to sign into websites without having to create a login specific to that site at participating sites (about 60-80% of North American websites). Mozilla is able to track which sites a user visits across the web, but Google will not be able to do the same. Mozilla's Persona tool is already available to Yahoo users and adding Gmail support means that Mozilla Persona now supports more than 700,000,000 email users.

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