512684 - Colored urlbar in case of httpS (as additional secure site indication)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement)

Description

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User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2

Currently in FF "normal" http-sites look more or less the same as "secure" httpS-sites since both have just a white background.

From a security perspective it would make surfing more secure if the background of the urlbar would change the color depeding on the security level of the site:
- level high: green
- level low: yellow
- level broken: red

(The lock-icon in the status bar is more or less out of a users' focus while surfing - so he won't realize changes from level high to level broken if only the small lock-icon changes.)

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

Firefox has moved away from coloring the address bar
bug 364977 - Address Bar for Phishing Sites should be colored red
bug 439951 - Yellow bar when using encrypted connection is gone

Comment 2

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

wontfix - we used do this to some extent, but went away from it for the all the bells and whistles larry has.