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Exclamation mark on some tabs

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Since yesterday some tabs in my FF have a yellow exclamation mark next to the page logos. They are those tabs which require a password but not all password protected pages. I have only found out that the marks disappear if I delete the tick with "Protect tab" (tab - right mouse button click) but I would love to know why they are there - what they mean. I believe I did not change any settings. Thanks for your replies :-)

Since yesterday some tabs in my FF have a yellow exclamation mark next to the page logos. They are those tabs which require a password but not all password protected pages. I have only found out that the marks disappear if I delete the tick with "Protect tab" (tab - right mouse button click) but I would love to know why they are there - what they mean. I believe I did not change any settings. Thanks for your replies :-)

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Sounds that this is (was) coming from one of the installed (tab related) extensions.

Did Firefox recently update or did your extensions update?

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Hello cheva, probably you mean the Orange warning triangle.

see also : How does content that isn't secure affect my safety?


thank you

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Hi, thanks for replying. Unfortunately, the mark wasn't orange but black inside a yellow shape of a coat-of-arms. It did not appear in the url box but over the page logo in the title of the tab. It stopped appearing once I restarted FF.

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Sounds that this is (was) coming from one of the installed (tab related) extensions.

Did Firefox recently update or did your extensions update?