Mozilla adopts plain-vanilla password sign-in for Firefox sync

 Mozilla has begun testing a simpler new system for synchronizing Firefox’s bookmarks, open tabs, Web site passwords, and other browser settings.

Until now, the not-for-profit organization had used a complicated mechanism in which you had to type a pairing code shown on one browser into another browser. Now it’s begun a shift to begun a shift to a plain old username-password approach to Firefox sync, Mozilla said Saturday.