I have a web app that runs over ssl.  Nothing on the page ever points
outside of the secure domain, but if I change a frame's contents via
JavaScript, Mozilla assumes that the page is not completely secure and
displays a warning to this effect.

I've read through:

  http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155760

and can see no valid reason for this behavior.  Interestingly, IE 5.5
does not have this behavior.

What are average, non-computer-specialist users going to think if they
use Netscape 7.x and go to a secure site that has some DHTML on it
that changes the content of a frame, and get a security warning?  They
are not going to want to do business on that site, and that site's
owners will have a motivation to encourage users to use a browser
other than N7.x.  Sounds like a bug to me.

Perhaps instead of a frame for my targeted user interface element I
should use a div.  Yet frames are standard web u.i. idiom, and should
be fully supported.

My site is not up yet, but the bug report above gives a full example
of the problem.

Is there a final word on this issue from Mozilla/Netscape?  If so,
where may I read about it?

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