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Firefox 16.01 does not colour code SSl or (HTTPS) site anymore

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Brown Fox
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I have tried 16.01 on my Mac OS and it no longer shows colour coded SSL sites anymore. As an example if I go to Gmail it wuld show Blue certificate information and Htmail would be Green and unknown would be Gray. When I tried this today Oct-21-2012 I got no colour code. Why?

I have tried 16.01 on my Mac OS and it no longer shows colour coded SSL sites anymore. As an example if I go to Gmail it wuld show Blue certificate information and Htmail would be Green and unknown would be Gray. When I tried this today Oct-21-2012 I got no colour code. Why?

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philipp
philipp
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hello, this was a deliberate change in the user interface that was introduced with firefox 14. ssl encrypted pages should now be indicated with a grey padlock or green when they come with Extended Validation.

https://msujaws.wordpress.com/2012/04/23/an-update-to-site-identity-in-desktop-firefox/

Brown Fox
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I noticed that they Firefox 16.01 infomration show that the Certificate infomration should be colour coded.

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/features/ Under advanced security.

So it appears I have a fake Firefox 16.01 version. I downloaded Firefox 16.01 through my ISP Electronic Box located in Canada. The IP address for Mozilla.org is 63.245.217.105. The download URL is "http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/products/download.html?product=firefox-16.0.1&os=osx&lang=en-US"

Can anyone else confirm is they get the colour code Blue, green ,gray for web sites?

philipp
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here you have another mozilla source that explains the changes: https://blog.mozilla.org/ux/2012/06/site-identity-ui-updates/