QR code with your phone

[Pasha]

Add the ability to log into your account by scanning a QR code with your phone.

[Jon]

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[Serg]

@Pasha  thanks for the idea. Can you elaborate how exactly that would work? Where QR code is displayed? What information is encoded there?

[Venator]

See Discord and Steam login pages:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=steam+qr+code+login&t=newext&atb=v384-1&iax=images&ia=images

[Venator]

@Serg: would probably just need some sort of unique ID for the browser session, I'd assume firefox already has this for the sessions feature?

[Serg]

In case of Discord, the scan must be done by Discord App on the mobile, so it can authorize another computer to login to Discord. This is a site specific feature and browser can't help much with it.

The only scenario that comes to mind is:

1. user opens site.com on their laptop

2. user triggers something in Firefox to show QR code

3. user scans QR code on laptop with their Firefox on mobile

4. Firefox does it's magic and site.com login is filled on the laptop

But that scenario is a lot of extra effort, when user can just fill credentials stored in Firefox.