BrowserID is also known as Mozilla Persona. It is a Single Sign On protocol similar to OpenID, but based on user email address rather than a <abbrtitle="Uniform Resource Locator">URL</abbr>. <ahref="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Persona/FAQ?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=Persona%2FFAQ#How_does_Persona_compare_to_OpenID.3F"class="urlextern"title="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Persona/FAQ?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=Persona%2FFAQ#How_does_Persona_compare_to_OpenID.3F"rel="nofollow">Of course, there are other differences</a>.
See the full description of the protocol here: <ahref="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Persona"class="urlextern"title="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Persona"rel="nofollow">https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Persona</a>
<p><divclass="notetip">You can then choose any other module for users and password but if you want to totally delegate authentication to BrowserID, choose <ahref="../../documentation/2.0/authnull.html"class="wikilink1"title="documentation:2.0:authnull">None</a> for users and password.
<liclass="level1"><divclass="li"><strong>Auto login</strong>: set to 1 to use auto login. This mode is not compatible with a lot of browsers which block pop-ups.</div>
<liclass="level1"><divclass="li"><strong>Verification <abbrtitle="Uniform Resource Locator">URL</abbr></strong>: <abbrtitle="Uniform Resource Locator">URL</abbr> used to verifiy the BrowserID assertion. Leave blank to use Mozilla default verification <abbrtitle="Uniform Resource Locator">URL</abbr> (<ahref="https://verifier.login.persona.org/verify"class="urlextern"title="https://verifier.login.persona.org/verify"rel="nofollow">https://verifier.login.persona.org/verify</a>)</div>
<liclass="level1"><divclass="li"><strong>Site Logo</strong>: Logo that will be displayed in the BrowserID login window. You <strong>must</strong> provide a full <abbrtitle="Uniform Resource Identifier">URI</abbr> (for example /skins/common/lemonldap-ng_square.png) and use HTTPS on the portal</div>