1594469 - HTTPS should not be a gray padlock. Revert back to Green as default.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Site Identity, enhancement)

Description

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Attachment: GrayPadlock.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:70.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/70.0

Steps to reproduce:

Any functional HTTPS website.

Actual results:

The https padlock was grey.
https://twitter.com/theochino/status/1192103980945592320?s=20

Expected results:

The padlock to be green.

As IT professionals we spent years teaching users that they should be looking for a Green padlock and that it is synonymous of security. It has been part for 20 years of a secure website.

Comment 1

[(inactive) Nihanth Subramanya [:nhnt11]]

This change was made intentionally in the interest of evolving the visual language around security on the Web. Please see https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2019/10/15/improved-security-and-privacy-indicators-in-firefox-70/ for more details.