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Where did the Secure Site Icon go ?

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I know the status bar was removed and an and on bar replaces it but Where did the Secure Site Icon go ? Will not use FF without it !

I cant find anything about it. ( FF 40b7 ) How do I get it back ? Not so little things like this will hurt FF. And YES I understand this is beta but come on guys/gals this is IMPORTANT ! I probably just missed something stupid but I could use some help please.

I know the status bar was removed and an and on bar replaces it but Where did the Secure Site Icon go ? Will not use FF without it ! I cant find anything about it. ( FF 40b7 ) How do I get it back ? Not so little things like this will hurt FF. And YES I understand this is beta but come on guys/gals this is IMPORTANT ! I probably just missed something stupid but I could use some help please.

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The lock icon did more than indicating a site is secure: it allowed you to look at the site identity and certificate information by clicking on it. I had to follow some links in this thread to find out that one can also click on some icon that's now in the address bar to get the same information (and it's also not on the default tab); guess how many people will know about that?

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Let's ask: who do you want to use Firefox? Only people who develop Firefox? I had to dig out the information that you can click on the icon in the address bar, from which you can then navigate to the tab indicating security information about the web site, whereas I was able to see that there was relevant information (the lock icon) and could get to it by clicking on it. Please consider that many users don't even know what to do with the address bar - you really think they know that they can click on the site identity icon?

I now know what to do but it did cost me time, including looking up information I should not have needed to. That's what you call a poor user interface.

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The Site Identity Button has been in Firefox since version 3.0, which was released on June 17, 2008 - like 2 1/2 years before the "padlock" was removed. It is sad that some users looked at that button sitting on the Location bar changing colors as they moved from site to site for that long and weren't inquisitive enough about it to try to learn about it in all that time.

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I don't get this at all. I buy the cheapest ssl certs available - and they work but don't supply site identity info. So now firefox is telling the world that these sites are insecure when they are not! There's no way this is a good thing. Are the Firefox developers thinking they know more about this than the folks who sell the certificates?

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You have to make sure that your server has all intermediate certificates installed and sends them in the correct order so that Firefox can build a certificate chain that ends with a builtin root certificate.

You can test the certificate chain via a site like this:

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I had this problem also. Add https://addons.mozilla.org/en-Us/firefox/addon/padlock-icon/ to restore the icon. This excellent add on restores the open and closed padlock icons.

Unfortunately, this is one area where Firefox is behind Internet Explorer, which allows you to actually omit the offending content. I used this feature to find out that the Facebook "like" button on the page caused the problem, and therefore there wasn't any possible real security breach at all.

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