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No padlock reflects to show secure website since upgrading to firefox 4.

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Since upgrading to Firefox 4 I can't find the padlock anywhere which shows that I am on a secure website.

Since upgrading to Firefox 4 I can't find the padlock anywhere which shows that I am on a secure website.

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The Statusbar is gone and the "lock" with it. Security information about a web page is shown by the Site Identity Button, which has been there since Firefox 3 came out.
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Site+Identity+Button

You can add a padlock to the location bar with the Padlock add-on- https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/padlock-icon

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The Statusbar is gone and the "lock" with it. Security information about a web page is shown by the Site Identity Button, which has been there since Firefox 3 came out.
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Site+Identity+Button

You can add a padlock to the location bar with the Padlock add-on- https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/padlock-icon

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I FEEL SO MUCH BETTER BEING ABLE TO SEE THE PADLOCK. A BIG THANK YOU!

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You're welcome.

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A security Padlock Icon should NOT have to be manually set up by the user. It should not be an Add-On, it needs to be a part of the standard build package. It has become a norm and expectation of web usability.

Not including the icon violates two of Jakob Nielson's Usability Heuristics for HCI (human computer interaction) principles -namely that of 'Visibility' and 'Consistency and Standards'. http://www.useit.com/papers/heuristic/heuristic_list.html

As this is a community driven web platform, the feedback is apparent to reintroduce it ASAP.

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Check Since I updated tpo 4.01, I lost my status bar. In the View | Toolbars menu, the statusbar, which has be renamed to Add-on Bar, can be reenabled, or toggled on or off using the shortcut "Ctrl"+"/".

I was about to abandon Firefox 4 and return to Firefox 3.6 for the lack of a statusbar. I did Mozilla & Google searches, and was looking into adding the extension Status-4-Evar, or modifying CSS, to try to restore the statusbar. The solution, while well hidden, was far simpler, and the Firefox developers shouldn't have made it so difficult to find.

Modified by SeamonkeyMonkey