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I agree with you -- OpenID itself needs to become a strong brand that means something. - Chris Messina

needs to be rock solid to protect online identities and easy to USE - Susan Beebe

Anything that accepts OpenID should just accept a simple URL, other buttons and logos create clutter. What confuses me is why sites cannot detect OpenID automatically. - Mike Chelen

Mike, intersting idea. If browsers start building in OpenID support, they could send an http header that would make such detection possible. For now the best a site can do is set a cookie to remember that the user used OpenID before. - Bruce Lewis from fftogo

Actually, look at facebook connect. It's so easy because you don't have to enter a URL. The button knows it's URL already. This definitely could be something browsers can hook into (is that how the Flock extension works? I haven't tried it yet). If there is widespread support and you browsers can detect these login fields and put your openid in there (maybe even with a logo so you know via which provider you log into) then it might be as easy as FB connect. - Christian Scholz

Christian, what do you think of Clickpass and its one-click OpenID login? - Bruce Lewis from fftogo

Just commented on your blog Christian http://tinyurl.com/6ohzsq to sum it up for friendfeed: I don't like the brand name itself. It is just not as descriptive as "Facebook Connect" is. Connect with Facebook - that is what people are understanding. OpenID ? "What ID? Why is it "open" - is that safe? I mean it has to do with my Password - shouldn't it be closed?" Thinks like that I hear really often, when I talk to non-geeks about OpenID! - Sebastian Küpers

Mike Chelen, a Firefox add-on http://Sxipper.com almost does that for you know. It can also remember your OpenID identities and represent them for login in the same way Autofill/Firefox can now represent your identity and password. - John Lam

OpenID matters? - freebat

Do you thinks so? - freebat

Thanks Pixelsebi, nice work! I actually watched your entire screencast and understood what you were explaining ;) - Shane

thx! @chris it's an important step towards the "open mesh" and will enable you to add your friends to your network independently which SNS they prefer. - Sebastian Küpers

Thanks Sebastian for sharing this, I posted on it here: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive... - Richard

Thirded. - Eric Geller

Is Google claiming they support firefox plugins? Didn't they just launch this browser? Patience is virtue. - Percival

ah, I'm not even going to install it right now if it doesn't have that. - Laura Norvig

And AdBlockPlus. - eratus

Matt, spot on. Bookmarklets work, but there's no support for plugins/toolsbars at this point. I have already added bookmarklets for Google Reader and so on :) - Adam Lasnik

Yeah, the Delicious extension was one of the ones I missed the most. - josh neff, Fun Dip of FF

The extension doesn't work but at least the bookmarklet does. Gotta have my delicious. - Kelley

I'd love Chrome for Mac. - Michael

I'd kill for a Google Notebook plugin. - Ian Miles Cheong

Could it be Chrome is fast b/c there are no plugins active? - Keith McDuffee from twhirl

Nope, that isn't why. It does multiprocessing and multithreading. In other words, it loads up more than 1 item at a time. - Ian Miles Cheong

Here's a reason not to use Chrome: http://tinyurl.com/63myff Google claims rights to ANYTHING you type in Chrome, which includes blogs AND emails. - Joel

Joel, it was a copy and paste mistake. They've since removed the offending text and put it in the appropriate area --bug reports - Ian Miles Cheong

Yes, but how does that make it better? Erm - it's ok because it was only they didn't get their documentation right? I'll wait to try it, thanks. :) - WorldofHiglet

I've put it aside but will be watching developments with interest. - Felicia