250393 - Level of encryption missing in About Mozilla Firefox

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Walter Wlodarski]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

A lot of new users migrating from IE expect to see informations about the level
of encryption in the About Firefox dialog. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to Help->About Mozilla Firefox
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Copyright, version and Firefox's logo appear in a dialog.

Expected Results:  
Show also the level of encryption supported by Firefox

From what I've seen in MozillaZine forum, a lot of IE users hesitate to switch
to Firefox because of this very simple info is missing.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

Would be nice to add a protest against the Clipper Chip there too... ;-)

This is no longer relevant in the modern-world of unrestricted crypto. Even the token from the user-agent string has long since been removed.