https:// form submition notification

Today after a long time I installed Fedora linux on my laptop. The default browser in linux is Mozilla and not Firefox. I should tell you Firefox with its good looks (thanks to the littlefox theme) and unlimited customisable options is the best browser around for a developer and a home user.

I have been using firefox for such a long time that I have started taking stuff for granted. Firefox usually changes the colour of the address bar when a page is retrieved from a secure source. Since the number of phishing attacks have increased lately, I make it a point that the form is being submitted on a secure channel (the url begins with https://). Today while using mozilla, I didnt find the colour change so I thought something was wrong with sun.com, only to find out that Mozilla did not change the colour of the location bar.

I know there is a small (really small) icon at bottom-right corner to tell the user if the current page is secure or not, but still there should be more clearer indications for that. As far as the blue e is concenrned, I dont give a flying fuc*.

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SSL, HTTPS, Security, Browser, Firefox, Mozilla