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Why do I get grey triangle/orange in the green lock

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melino7
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sometimes and not always using the same sites even my hotmail the green padlock comes up is a grey triangle with an orange Exclamation mark

sometimes and not always using the same sites even my hotmail the green padlock comes up is a grey triangle with an orange Exclamation mark

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Happy112
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Hi   melino7,
The triangle probably indicates that the connection between Firefox and the website is only partially encrypted and doesn't prevent eavesdropping;   you can find out why by checking out the following website:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/mixed-content-blocking-firefox

Greetings from Happy112.