diff --git a/settings.py b/settings.py
index ebed365970..0450595166 100644
--- a/settings.py
+++ b/settings.py
@@ -127,6 +127,11 @@ FXA_OAUTH_HOST = 'https://oauth-stable.dev.lcip.org/v1'
 FXA_PROFILE_HOST = 'https://stable.dev.lcip.org/profile/v1'
 ALLOWED_FXA_CONFIGS = ['default', 'amo', 'local']
 
+# When USE_FAKE_FXA_AUTH and settings.DEBUG are both True, we serve a fake
+# authentication page, bypassing FxA. To disable this behavior, set
+# USE_FAKE_FXA = False in your local settings.
+USE_FAKE_FXA_AUTH = True
+
 # CSP report endpoint which returns a 204 from addons-nginx in local dev.
 CSP_REPORT_URI = '/csp-report'
 RESTRICTED_DOWNLOAD_CSP['REPORT_URI'] = CSP_REPORT_URI
diff --git a/src/olympia/accounts/tests/test_utils.py b/src/olympia/accounts/tests/test_utils.py
index 44d2ac40dd..c0b3ba722f 100644
--- a/src/olympia/accounts/tests/test_utils.py
+++ b/src/olympia/accounts/tests/test_utils.py
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ from waffle.testutils import override_switch
 from olympia.accounts import utils
 from olympia.accounts.utils import process_fxa_event
 from olympia.amo.tests import TestCase, user_factory
+from olympia.amo.urlresolvers import reverse
 from olympia.users.models import UserProfile
 
 
@@ -208,6 +209,29 @@ def test_redirect_for_login(default_fxa_login_url):
     assert response['location'] == login_url
 
 
+@override_settings(DEBUG=True, USE_FAKE_FXA_AUTH=True)
+def test_fxa_login_url_when_faking_fxa_auth():
+    path = '/en-US/addons/abp/?source=ddg'
+    request = RequestFactory().get(path)
+    request.session = {'fxa_state': 'myfxastate'}
+    raw_url = utils.fxa_login_url(
+        config=FXA_CONFIG['default'], state=request.session['fxa_state'],
+        next_path=path, action='signin')
+    url = urlparse(raw_url)
+    assert url.scheme == ''
+    assert url.netloc == ''
+    assert url.path == reverse('fake-fxa-authorization')
+    query = parse_qs(url.query)
+    next_path = urlsafe_b64encode(path.encode('utf-8')).rstrip(b'=')
+    assert query == {
+        'action': ['signin'],
+        'client_id': ['foo'],
+        'scope': ['profile openid'],
+        'state': ['myfxastate:{next_path}'.format(
+            next_path=force_text(next_path))],
+    }
+
+
 class TestProcessSqsQueue(TestCase):
 
     @mock.patch('boto3._get_default_session')
diff --git a/src/olympia/accounts/tests/test_views.py b/src/olympia/accounts/tests/test_views.py
index 9faaefb7b9..a8f6f71fb5 100644
--- a/src/olympia/accounts/tests/test_views.py
+++ b/src/olympia/accounts/tests/test_views.py
@@ -159,6 +159,15 @@ class TestLoginStartView(TestCase):
         assert views.LoginStartView.ALLOWED_FXA_CONFIGS == (
             ['default', 'amo', 'local'])
 
+    @override_settings(DEBUG=True, USE_FAKE_FXA_AUTH=True)
+    def test_redirect_url_fake_fxa_auth(self):
+        response = self.client.get(reverse_ns('accounts.login_start'))
+        assert response.status_code == 302
+        url = urlparse(response['location'])
+        assert url.path == reverse('fake-fxa-authorization')
+        query = parse_qs(url.query)
+        assert query['state']
+
 
 class TestLoginUserAndRegisterUser(TestCase):
 
@@ -723,6 +732,25 @@ class TestWithUser(TestCase):
         addon_factory(users=[self.user])
         self._test_should_continue_without_redirect_for_two_factor_auth()
 
+    @override_settings(DEBUG=True, USE_FAKE_FXA_AUTH=True)
+    def test_fake_fxa_auth(self):
+        self.user = user_factory()
+        self.find_user.return_value = self.user
+        self.request.data = {
+            'code': 'foo',
+            'fake_fxa_email': self.user.email,
+            'state': 'some-blob:{next_path}'.format(
+                next_path=force_text(base64.urlsafe_b64encode(b'/a/path/?'))),
+        }
+        args, kwargs = self.fn(self.request)
+        assert args == (self, self.request)
+        assert kwargs['user'] == self.user
+        assert kwargs['identity']['email'] == self.user.email
+        assert kwargs['identity']['uid'].startswith('fake_fxa_id-')
+        assert len(kwargs['identity']['uid']) == 44  # 32 random chars + prefix
+        assert kwargs['next_path'] == '/a/path/?'
+        assert self.fxa_identify.call_count == 0
+
 
 @override_settings(FXA_CONFIG={
     'foo': {'FOO': 123},
diff --git a/src/olympia/accounts/utils.py b/src/olympia/accounts/utils.py
index f8dba99ba6..d9d9007af4 100644
--- a/src/olympia/accounts/utils.py
+++ b/src/olympia/accounts/utils.py
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ import boto3
 
 from olympia.accounts.tasks import (
     delete_user_event, primary_email_change_event)
+from olympia.amo.urlresolvers import reverse
+from olympia.amo.utils import use_fake_fxa
 from olympia.core.logger import getLogger
 
 
@@ -71,8 +73,12 @@ def fxa_login_url(config, state, next_path=None, action=None,
         if id_token:
             query['prompt'] = 'none'
             query['id_token_hint'] = id_token
-    return '{host}/authorization?{query}'.format(
-        host=settings.FXA_OAUTH_HOST, query=urlencode(query))
+    if use_fake_fxa():
+        base_url = reverse('fake-fxa-authorization')
+    else:
+        base_url = '{host}/authorization'.format(host=settings.FXA_OAUTH_HOST)
+    return '{base_url}?{query}'.format(
+        base_url=base_url, query=urlencode(query))
 
 
 def default_fxa_register_url(request):
diff --git a/src/olympia/accounts/views.py b/src/olympia/accounts/views.py
index 45fb1c15ca..bd028609a4 100644
--- a/src/olympia/accounts/views.py
+++ b/src/olympia/accounts/views.py
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ from olympia.access import acl
 from olympia.access.models import GroupUser
 from olympia.amo import messages
 from olympia.amo.decorators import use_primary_db
-from olympia.amo.utils import fetch_subscribed_newsletters
+from olympia.amo.utils import fetch_subscribed_newsletters, use_fake_fxa
 from olympia.api.authentication import (
     JWTKeyAuthentication, UnsubscribeTokenAuthentication,
     WebTokenAuthentication)
@@ -261,8 +261,19 @@ def with_user(format):
                         response, request.user)
                 return response
             try:
-                identity, id_token = verify.fxa_identify(
-                    data['code'], config=fxa_config)
+                if use_fake_fxa() and 'fake_fxa_email' in data:
+                    # Bypassing real authentication, we take the email provided
+                    # and generate a random fxa id.
+                    identity = {
+                        'email': data['fake_fxa_email'],
+                        'uid': 'fake_fxa_id-%s' % force_text(
+                            binascii.b2a_hex(os.urandom(16))
+                        )
+                    }
+                    id_token = identity['email']
+                else:
+                    identity, id_token = verify.fxa_identify(
+                        data['code'], config=fxa_config)
             except verify.IdentificationError:
                 log.info('Profile not found. Code: {}'.format(data['code']))
                 return render_error(
diff --git a/src/olympia/amo/templates/amo/fake_fxa_authorization.html b/src/olympia/amo/templates/amo/fake_fxa_authorization.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a9a0990788
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/olympia/amo/templates/amo/fake_fxa_authorization.html
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+{% extends "base.html" %}
+
+{% block content %}
+  <h2> {{ _('Register or Log in') }} </h2>
+  <form id="fake_fxa_authorization" method="get" action="{{ url('auth:accounts.authenticate') }}">
+      {% for key, value in request.GET.items() %}
+        <input type="hidden" name="{{ key }}" value="{{ value }}" />
+      {% endfor %}
+      <input type="hidden" name="code" value="fakecode" />
+      <label for="id_email">{{ _('Email:') }}</label> <input type="email" name="fake_fxa_email" id="id_email" />
+      <input type="submit" value="{{ _('OK') }}" />
+  </form>
+{% endblock %}
diff --git a/src/olympia/amo/tests/test_views.py b/src/olympia/amo/tests/test_views.py
index b35f68d0b8..ca533d0837 100644
--- a/src/olympia/amo/tests/test_views.py
+++ b/src/olympia/amo/tests/test_views.py
@@ -410,6 +410,37 @@ class TestRobots(TestCase):
         assert 'Allow: {}'.format(url) in response.content.decode('utf-8')
 
 
+def test_fake_fxa_authorization_correct_values_passed():
+    with override_settings(DEBUG=True):  # USE_FAKE_FXA_AUTH is already True
+        url = reverse('fake-fxa-authorization')
+        response = test.Client().get(url, {'state': 'foobar'})
+        assert response.status_code == 200
+        doc = pq(response.content)
+        form = doc('#fake_fxa_authorization')[0]
+        assert form.attrib['action'] == reverse('auth:accounts.authenticate')
+        elm = doc('#fake_fxa_authorization input[name=code]')[0]
+        assert elm.attrib['value'] == 'fakecode'
+        elm = doc('#fake_fxa_authorization input[name=state]')[0]
+        assert elm.attrib['value'] == 'foobar'
+        elm = doc('#fake_fxa_authorization input[name=fake_fxa_email]')
+        assert elm  # No value yet, should just be present.
+
+
+def test_fake_fxa_authorization_deactivated():
+    url = reverse('fake-fxa-authorization')
+    with override_settings(DEBUG=False, USE_FAKE_FXA_AUTH=False):
+        response = test.Client().get(url)
+    assert response.status_code == 404
+
+    with override_settings(DEBUG=False, USE_FAKE_FXA_AUTH=True):
+        response = test.Client().get(url)
+    assert response.status_code == 404
+
+    with override_settings(DEBUG=True, USE_FAKE_FXA_AUTH=False):
+        response = test.Client().get(url)
+    assert response.status_code == 404
+
+
 class TestAtomicRequests(WithDynamicEndpointsAndTransactions):
 
     def setUp(self):
diff --git a/src/olympia/amo/urls.py b/src/olympia/amo/urls.py
index 1a50441950..98c986a8d9 100644
--- a/src/olympia/amo/urls.py
+++ b/src/olympia/amo/urls.py
@@ -28,5 +28,6 @@ urlpatterns = [
     re_path(r'^opensearch\.xml$', render_xml,
             {'template': 'amo/opensearch.xml'},
             name='amo.opensearch'),
-
+    re_path(r'^fake-fxa-authorization/$', views.fake_fxa_authorization,
+            name='fake-fxa-authorization')
 ]
diff --git a/src/olympia/amo/utils.py b/src/olympia/amo/utils.py
index ed0e41c366..919fdd2b59 100644
--- a/src/olympia/amo/utils.py
+++ b/src/olympia/amo/utils.py
@@ -1032,6 +1032,12 @@ def extract_colors_from_image(path):
     return colors
 
 
+def use_fake_fxa():
+    """Return whether or not to use a fake FxA server for authentication.
+    Should always return False in production"""
+    return settings.DEBUG and settings.USE_FAKE_FXA_AUTH
+
+
 class AMOJSONEncoder(JSONEncoder):
     def default(self, obj):
         if isinstance(obj, Translation):
diff --git a/src/olympia/amo/views.py b/src/olympia/amo/views.py
index 681530a633..6e2727832d 100644
--- a/src/olympia/amo/views.py
+++ b/src/olympia/amo/views.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ from django import http
 from django.conf import settings
 from django.core.exceptions import ViewDoesNotExist
 from django.db.transaction import non_atomic_requests
-from django.http import HttpResponse, JsonResponse
+from django.http import Http404, HttpResponse, JsonResponse
 from django.views.decorators.cache import never_cache
 
 from django_statsd.clients import statsd
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ from rest_framework.response import Response
 from rest_framework.views import APIView
 
 from olympia import amo
-from olympia.amo.utils import render
+from olympia.amo.utils import render, use_fake_fxa
 from olympia.api.exceptions import base_500_data
 from olympia.api.serializers import SiteStatusSerializer
 
@@ -152,6 +152,13 @@ def frontend_view(*args, **kwargs):
 frontend_view.is_frontend_view = True
 
 
+def fake_fxa_authorization(request):
+    """Fake authentication page to bypass FxA in local development envs."""
+    if not use_fake_fxa():
+        raise Http404()
+    return render(request, 'amo/fake_fxa_authorization.html')
+
+
 class SiteStatusView(APIView):
     authentication_classes = []
     permission_classes = []
diff --git a/src/olympia/landfill/serializers.py b/src/olympia/landfill/serializers.py
index edeee21f28..689f1d0cb3 100644
--- a/src/olympia/landfill/serializers.py
+++ b/src/olympia/landfill/serializers.py
@@ -43,11 +43,17 @@ class GenerateAddonsSerializer(serializers.Serializer):
     count = serializers.IntegerField(default=10)
 
     def __init__(self):
-        self.fxa_email = os.environ.get(
-            'UITEST_FXA_EMAIL', 'uitest-%s@restmail.net' % uuid.uuid4())
-        self.fxa_password = os.environ.get(
-            'UITEST_FXA_PASSWORD', 'uitester')
-        self.fxa_id = self._create_fxa_user()
+        self.fxa_email = os.environ.get('UITEST_FXA_EMAIL')
+        self.fxa_password = os.environ.get('UITEST_FXA_PASSWORD', 'uitester')
+        if self.fxa_email:
+            self.fxa_id = self._create_fxa_user()
+        else:
+            # If UITEST_FXA_EMAIL was empty/absent, skip creating the fxa
+            # account: we won't need to log in with that user through FxA.
+            log.info('UITEST_FXA_EMAIL is empty, skipping FxA user creation')
+            # We still need those to be set for the content to be created.
+            self.fxa_id = None
+            self.fxa_email = 'uitest-%s@restmail.net' % uuid.uuid4()
         self.user = self._create_addon_user()
 
     def _create_fxa_user(self):
diff --git a/src/olympia/lib/settings_base.py b/src/olympia/lib/settings_base.py
index c34679845e..d1f398b5f2 100644
--- a/src/olympia/lib/settings_base.py
+++ b/src/olympia/lib/settings_base.py
@@ -1836,6 +1836,7 @@ FXA_OAUTH_HOST = 'https://oauth.accounts.firefox.com/v1'
 FXA_PROFILE_HOST = 'https://profile.accounts.firefox.com/v1'
 DEFAULT_FXA_CONFIG_NAME = 'default'
 ALLOWED_FXA_CONFIGS = ['default']
+USE_FAKE_FXA_AUTH = False  # Should only be True for local development envs.
 
 # List all jobs that should be callable with cron here.
 # syntax is: job_and_method_name: full.package.path