274130 - Flash/change color of the location bar when displayed URL differs from actual URL

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement)

Description

[Peter C]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

I have spoofstick extension installed, but it
only bas a bar showing the real url. It would be a dramatic improvement to
Firefox to have the location bar flash/colored red when the displayed url and
actual url differs. Would the Firefox developers consider this? 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.install spoofed stick
2.go to test spoofed site
3.observe location bar color

Actual Results:  
no change in location bar color

Expected Results:  
location bar flash and/or turn angry red

no theme

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Looking the spoofstick web site, it looks like spoofstick protects against two
types of spoofs:

1. http://signin.ebay.com@10.19.32.4/.  Firefox already prevents this kind of
spoof by warning *and* by hiding the username when displaying the URL in the
address bar.

2. http://ebay.com.e-gold.com/ or http://www.cnn.com.nyud.net:8090/.

In neither type of spoof does the dispayed URL differ from the real URL, so I'm
not sure what you want Firefox to do.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Jesse , can you resolve this one (wont or new) ?

Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman]

Marking as invalid based on comment 1.