Closed Bug 243292 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Syntax highlighted URIs in location bar to even more prevent phishing

Categories

(Core :: Networking, enhancement)

Product:
Core
Component:
Networking
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 184074

People

(Reporter: nicolas.verite, Assigned: darin.moz)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

Highlighted fully qualified domain names inside URIs emphasizes phishing by
showing malicious websites.
This syntax highlighting can also simply improve user experience.
See Bugzilla Bug 240754
"Escape dots in the username and password when canonicalizing URIs"
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240754

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type any URI in location bar
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
It has the OS-configured font color.

Expected Results:  
http://no-color-user:no-color-password@colored.tld/no-color-dir/no-color-page.no-color-exension?no-color

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 184074 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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