my mozillas security of any login site appear the security lock at bottom for example the yahoo email.why cant i see it anymore?
good day to mozilla ! just wonder if is it normal that mozilla update work like this...one time i experience as i operating my computer this are the problem i encounter whereas.. that every time i open my computer i have to set firefox to dissapear the big letters of firefox and start my setting the site
of mozilla outlook.i have to check evrething,.such as bookmark,tools,view, uncheck the tabs on top..etc..besides that when i login to any site .i see no security lock in yahoo,youtube,facebook..how can i assure that that i access the right site? i expect you can answer me and be guided what i should do..thanks!
respectfully yours'
poipoi
All Replies (2)
In Firefox 4 and later you no longer have the Status bar that showed the padlock in previous Firefox versions.
The padlock only shows that there is a secure connection and doesn't guarantee that you are connected to the right server.
So you might still be connected to the wrong server if you make a typo in the URL and someone has claimed that mistyped URL.
The functionality of the padlock has been replaced by the How do I tell if my connection to a website is secure? on the left end of the location bar.
See also:
- http://www.dria.org/wordpress/archives/2008/05/06/635/
- https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Site+Identity+Button
- http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/security/identity/
You can use this extension to get a padlock on the location bar.
The Site Identity Button has existed since Firefox 3.0 release in case you have not noticed all this time.
I agree that the padlock was misleading sometimes and about the only time it was useful was when it had the broken lock icon so as to show there was a non secure item being displayed such as one or more images from a non secure connection.