{"id":642,"date":"2016-10-06T20:37:37","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T20:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/services\/?p=642"},"modified":"2016-10-06T20:37:37","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T20:37:37","slug":"device-management-coming-to-your-firefox-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/services\/2016\/10\/06\/device-management-coming-to-your-firefox-account\/","title":{"rendered":"Device management coming to your Firefox Account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we are beginning a phased roll out of a new account management feature to Firefox Accounts users. This new feature aims to give users a clear overview of all services attached to the account, and provide our users with full control over their synced devices.<\/p>\n<p>With the new \u201cDevices\u201d panel in your Firefox Accounts settings, you will be able to manage all your devices that use Firefox Sync.\u00a0The devices section shows all connected Firefox clients on Desktop, iOS and Android, making it an excellent addition to those who use Firefox Sync on multiple devices. Use the &#8220;Disconnect&#8221; button to get rid of the devices that you don&#8217;t want to sync.<\/p>\n<p>This feature will be made available to all users soon and we have a lot more planned to make account management easier for everyone.\u00a0Here\u2019s what the first version of the devices view looks like:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/services\/files\/2016\/10\/devices-fxa-2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-643\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/services\/files\/2016\/10\/devices-fxa-2.png\" alt=\"Devices\" width=\"586\" height=\"707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/services\/files\/2016\/10\/devices-fxa-2.png 586w, https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/services\/files\/2016\/10\/devices-fxa-2-252x304.png 252w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 586px) 100vw, 586px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTo stay organized you can easily rename your device in the Sync Preferences using the \u201cDevice Name\u201d panel:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/services\/files\/2016\/10\/device-name-2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-644\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/services\/files\/2016\/10\/device-name-2.png\" alt=\"Updating Device Name\" width=\"703\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/services\/files\/2016\/10\/device-name-2.png 703w, https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/services\/files\/2016\/10\/device-name-2-252x242.png 252w, https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/services\/files\/2016\/10\/device-name-2-600x576.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 703px) 100vw, 703px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to everyone who worked on this feature: Phil Booth, Jon Buckley, Vijay Budhram, Alex Davis, Ryan Feeley, Vlad Filippov, Mark Hammond, Ryan Kelly , Sean McArthur, John Morrison, Edouard Oger, Shane Tomlinson. Special thanks to developers on the mobile teams that helped with device registration:\u00a0Nick Alexander, Michael Comella, Stephan Leroux and Brian Nicholson.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to get involved with the Firefox Accounts open source project please visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/fxa.readthedocs.io\" target=\"_blank\">fxa.readthedocs.io<\/a>.\u00a0Make sure to visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/accounts.firefox.com\/settings\" target=\"_blank\">Firefox Accounts settings page<\/a> in the coming weeks to take more control over your devices!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we are beginning a phased roll out of a new account management feature to Firefox Accounts users. This new feature aims to give users a clear overview of all services attached to the account, and provide our users with &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/services\/2016\/10\/06\/device-management-coming-to-your-firefox-account\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1376,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41992],"tags":[42008],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}