You can click the How do I tell if my connection to a website is secure? on the left end of the location bar to see the padlock and click the More information button to see additional information about the connection.

Thanks! Works perfectly!

Please find a place to permanently display the site security padlock icon.

When surfing the web then deciding to enter sensitive information I have always quickly looked for the padlock before continuing. Now I must stop what I am doing and click on the 'Site Identity Button'. This is inconvenient, and as I move through a vendor's site, I need to do this for EVERY page.

I am enjoying Firefox 4.0, but have a few concerns that style or convenience might have weakened security.

Thanks,

You can add a padlock to the location bar with the Padlock add-on- https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/padlock-icon

Be aware that the presence of the padlock is no guarantee that you are connected to the right server. A spoofed secure connection would show the same way. The Site Identity Button on the location should change the background color (blue or green) and show the domain in case of a secure connection. You can hover that Site Identity button to see by which organization the connection is verified. That gives at least a confirmation about the correct server. You will still have to click the padlock or the Site Identity Button to get additional information.

I understand the reasoning behind removing this. I have worked in IT for 30 years, I like how this works in FF4. My concern, however, is that my 75 year-old parents do not, all they know is that for the last 10 years I have been telling them that if they don't see a padlock they should not enter any sensitive information. They will never click on the verification button, nor would they understand any of the information there anyway. In addition color coding the button does not help my color blind father nor my nearly-blind mother.

I have been a huge proponent of FireFox since the original beta, but I will now begin telling all of my non-technical family and friends that come to me for IT advice to use a different browser, because I have neither the time nor the patience to retrain them.

---I agree that something as important as "Secure Sockets Layer" should be available at a glance, and not have to be looked for.

---It always was and should continue to be, that customizing of the toolbars should be user-defined... like, I would very much like my "reload" button & stop buttons to be by the back & forward buttons, even if I do use Alt+F5 more often than the mouse... but back to topic, undoubtedly ("without a doubt", for the English comprehension challenged), the SSL icon should not be default peek-a-boo with no way to change it. Since I hadn't gone to a Secure site prior to seeing this thread, so it was important enough to make me run to one and see, then post a reply, if not back up what baelgren suggested.

---Get use to it belgren and don't try to explain yourself. It seems that the higher the answer count, the least amount of your post was read and comprehended. and sometimes the usual... "This is tech support, how may I be helping you "click-click", but if you wait and keep saying "no, that's not it", "no, that's not it either", someone with intelligence will eventually post... or you will find it yourself.

---I feel we've entered a new generation of developers who feel Firefox is just a "cool browser" and have ignored the reason why people use it.

1. Simplicity
2. User friendliness
3. In no way, shape or form associated with Microsoft

---Fix that which is changed out of the three, and all will be cool again.

---Nice catch ray75. Definitely important, even if some* users, who curtsey and like eye candy, don't see the importance.

---Cool colors isn't what a majority of the people look for, especially when it's something that has been there for decades... and then it isn't. Probably only 1% of the users know or care to know that there is a forum, let alone help for the browser. Why complicate it with eye candy, when lack of eye candy is what attracted most firefox users?