Hi Boris, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
Mousing over the padlock currently shows a tooltip that says "Authenticated by XXXX" where XXXX is the O field of the certificate issuer. I agree that we could show better stuff here. The question is what to show.Right! I think the "Authenticated by" is not the most important perhaps (And I'm saying it and run a CA ;-)). I like the approach Opera took for example, with showing to whom the certificate is issued in the address bar and a click on it brings a window with all important details about the holder and the issuer of the certificate. Certainly worth looking into a similar option for FF.
Yes, actually you are right! Perhaps I'm just used to previous FF versions? Don't know...In Seamonkey, clicking on the padlock opens the "security" tab in page info. In Firefox, double-clicking on the padlock does the same.
Also yes...I guess, that opening the Certificate Viewer instead would be a minor investment with the greatest effect. If the UI people can agree on this we could open a bug perhaps...Actually, in Firefox, "Double-click on the lock, click View". But yes, clearly not so discoverable (e.g. you didn't find it).
Maybe :-) So a prominent section in the address bar dedicated to the lock and additional information if the page is secured, would attract more attention than currently. I think the combination of both steps would bring an improvement to FF.They wouldn't know to click on the lock icon either, frankly...
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