620456 - Restore lock icon that used to show up in status bar for SSL-enabled sites

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 619921

(Firefox :: Security, defect)

Description

[sjs]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b7) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b7) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b7

4.0b7 removes the status bar in favor of an addon bar.  Many of the elements that used to be in the status bar have been moved to the location bar.  However, the SSL-enabled lock icon has not.  This creates confusion for users about whether or not their communications are encrypted.  See comments here:

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/767559

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to an SSL-enabled site
Actual Results:  
No lock icon appears in the status bar (because the status bar is not there)

Expected Results:  
Lock icon somewhere.

Comment 1

[the-edmeister]

IE9 and Opera 11 have moved the "lock" from the right-side of the URL bar, and have incorporated that icon in their version of the "Site Identity Button" by replacing the website Favicon with a "security lock". I strongly suggest that Mozilla do the same, because users expect to see a "lock" - right, wrong, or indifferent. Clicking in the Site Identity Button to see the "lock" isn't good enough, the "lock" needs to be visible with no user action at all.