480622 - add option to not display EV company name in the address bar

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Security, enhancement)

Description

[maix]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008121621 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008121621 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.5

There is an option `browser.identity.ssl_domain_display` (btw I have no idea why one would need that, since the domain is already visible in the URL, but well).
I would like to have such an option in the other direction, so that one could disable display of the company name (that one with the green background) and just display the favicon like without an EV certificate (just with green). IMHO it just wastes space in the address bar without being very useful¹, one can click on it to get that information.

Thanks!

¹ For example, I don't know „eBay Inc. (US)“ (and thus don't trust it), I know „ebay.com“ (and thus trust it). Who knows how the company operating ebay.com is called?

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

How about a browser.identity.ssl_domain_display with the same options as browser.identity.ssl_domain_display, plus "3" for "show EV name (default)"?

Comment 2

[maix]

Yes that'd be good. But with another option name (I assume you wanted to write something else? :) )

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

browser.identity.ev_domain_display, perhaps

Comment 4

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

I'd say browser.identity.ssl_subject_display, as a boolean pref. If false, it should fall back to browser.identity.ssl_domain_display.

Comment 5

[maix]

For those who don't want to wait: http://userstyles.org/styles/15151

Comment 6

[Suzanne Smedberg]

Gavin - Any suggestions?  Is this a possibility, or should I mark it incomplete?

Comment 7

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

This is better handled by add-on or other user customization (e.g. userChrome.css).