Firefox 3 new SSL indicator

When you visit SSL-enabled websites with Firefox 2 the address bar will display the URL on yellow background. Firefox 3 no longer uses that yellow background, instead it shows a blue or green background around favion arrea. Why?


Well, FF3 release note has this to say: "yellow was judged to no longer be a good color as Internet Explorer 7 uses it to mean a suspected phishing website". Kinda make sense but somehow I don't feel like it's a good enough reason to make this change. I could live with it tho. What about those green and blue then?

well, the blue background is for the website that uses old SSL cert.

You can click on it to get information on that cert.

If a website is using new-style SSL cert, which contains even more details, you will see a green background. Click on it will again show details.

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