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For Google contacts, user authentication for this feature is achieved by using OAuth. In order to use Google's servers with OAuth, clients need to send an OAuth client ID and a secret during the OAuth procedure. Mozilla has such a key that ships as part of official Firefox builds; however, this key is not available to developers or downstream distributions. In order to make use of the Google contact import feature, non-official builds must provision their own key. | For Google contacts, user authentication for this feature is achieved by using OAuth. In order to use Google's servers with OAuth, clients need to send an OAuth client ID and a secret during the OAuth procedure. Mozilla has such a key that ships as part of official Firefox builds; however, this key is not available to developers or downstream distributions. In order to make use of the Google contact import feature, non-official builds must provision their own key. | ||
'''Note that this information is only useful if you're a developer building your own copy of Firefox. Typical users should not need to worry about OAuth keys.''' | |||
== Step One: Get your Client ID and Key == | == Step One: Get your Client ID and Key == | ||
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=== Option B: Setting Prefs === | === Option B: Setting Prefs === | ||
As an alternative, you may go to < | As an alternative, you may go to <tt>about:config</tt> and set the following prefs (adding them as "string" type if they are not already present): | ||
* loop.oauth.google.clientIdOverride | * loop.oauth.google.clientIdOverride | ||
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Note that these prefs will override any built-in values, even for official builds; so, if you'd like, you can use them to double-check that the Client ID and Client Secret are working before you build them into a binary. | Note that these prefs will override any built-in values, even for official builds; so, if you'd like, you can use them to double-check that the Client ID and Client Secret are working before you build them into a binary. | ||
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