How do I make Firefox highlight the adress bar when visiting secure websites?

Ricochet J · 7 Jul 2009 at 17:25

I thought I'd try Firefox. So far, I don't like it. But I'm giving it a chance. Everytime I visit a website with a security certificate the address bar is not highlighted. Internet Explorer does this. So how do I make Firefox do the same?

Thanks

tolien · 7 Jul 2009 at 18:17

http://lifehacker.com/396582/turn-firefox-3s-location-bar-yellow-at-https-urls

The favicon to the left of the address bar changes colour to show you're using HTTPS, like IE7 does. The equivalent in Firefox of the yellow address bar/site's name shown next to the padlock is the favicon box turning green.

Ricochet J · 7 Jul 2009 at 18:24

Ah thank you. I think it's a bit silly they dropped a feature which quite clearly helps the less experienced users identify certificates. My mum does online banking and she knows if it's safe if the URL bar turns yellow. She then checks the certificates. If she didn't see the URL bar highlighted she would think there is something wrong with her bank account and panic!

Thanks again

tolien · 7 Jul 2009 at 18:48

It was dropped for exactly that reason. The yellow bar does not indicate that it's secure, just that you're using HTTPS.