Really, what planet are the developers and managers living on?įirefox, you used to be great, now, it is the browser I am learning to despise and being forced into other options. And now it sounds like it will be another victim of the FF toss-it-change-it team. I and many of the folks I know rely on the Favicon to give an instant visual cue as to which website is being clicked. And potentially throwing out the Favicon mini site icon in the process. So now there is a half-hearted attempt to put a padlock back, but doing it in a way that only the most visually acute can tell. (which I now instantly and always turn back on in any v4+ FF install). (What idiot decided that was a necessary change?!) And the HTTP/S part of the address bar is now turned off by default, and requires a geeky change in the FF Config page. Somewhere after v4, the yellow padlock was thrown out. In Firefox 3.6, there was both an “HTTPS” in the Address URL bar, and an EASY TO IDENTIFY Yellow Padlock in the lower corner.
How to identify if a web connection is Secure. (And even 10ESR has items that are lost…) Now I am actively changing that to a guarded option – either choose 10ESR, or keep your other browsers to use instead of the constantly changing Firefox. I have recommended (edit: used to) to so many people and clients over the years that they switch from IE to Firefox. Pretty obviously they do not have to deal with ordinary users who are continuously befuddled by the changes –and losses– in Firefox. New worthless (IMO) features get added for no true benefit that I see. Useful features seem to get turned off for truly no valid reason. I am starting to wonder if idiots run Firefox development.įirefox 3.6.xx was pretty darn decent – great even.įirefox 4++++ seems to get crappier with every rush-it-out-the-door release. –heh, and Martin thanks for your excellent posts, I really like to read your blog Stop Chromification of Firefox, Mozilla, we do not need this – and there is Chrome, alredy for those who like. Come on, how come people not understand a green highlight on the address bar should mean -at least- something, but a grey, dullest lock icon is better, huh? And in the previous incarnations of Firefox (and I cannot remember which one due too Chromified rapid release cycle), there was the best implementation for the secure sites – with the green band on the adress bar, which became subtler in the later releases. It does NOT simplify the appearance but makes it dull, indiscernible and treats the user as if s/he is a dumb.
I believe Firefox’s imortance will become even more visible for at least some more sections of the community, with Google’s reaching its apex of privacy invasions as such – which is not too far away.īut - Mozilla, please stop Chromification of Firefox! This behaviour is what Chrome has for at least as long as I know of it, and I do not think t adds anything to the user experience or anything.
I love mMozilla and I really think it is an important acievement of the free open source software – and I think it is becoming even more important with Google’s lurking on to extort all private data people have through a plethora of means, including ooh-soo-nice chrome. The browser distinguishes SSL certificates in the following way: Inexperienced users on the other hand may have difficulties distinguishing fake secure websites from secure websites. This should not be a issue for experienced users, as it is clear by the https protocol in the address bar whether a site is in deed using a secure connection using SSL or not. It becomes an issue however when malicious sites fake the secure site icon and display that to the user to make the user believe that the site uses a secure connection. Standard favicons help users identify websites, and there is nothing wrong with that. You may now be wondering why Mozilla thought it be a good idea to remove the favicon from the address bar. Firefox nightly users, who run the latest development releases of the browser, will already notice that the favicon has been removed in their versions. Open the Bookmarks file we just found with a plain text editor (Notepad, Notepad++, BBEdit, etc) and find the URL we noted in step 3.Jared Wein on behalf of Mozilla made an announcement two days ago that Mozilla had plans to remove the favicon from the Firefox browser's address bar. This will show some of the Opera details, one of them being the path to your profile.Ĭopy this path and in your file explorer / finder, go to that path and look for the file Bookmarks.įor example, mine is (MacOS): /Users/hans/Library/Application Support/Ħ. In the address bar of your Opera browser, now go to: opera:about and select Edit, and copy the URL listed).Ĥ. Open Speed Dial and verify that the image shows and copy the URL (click.