Administrator DKT27 Posted April 25, 2012 Administrator Share Posted April 25, 2012 Favicons will be removed from Firefox's address bar by mid-July, due to a security issue stemming from malicious sites using a lock icon to fool users into thinking they're on a secure connection. A little bit of flavor is leaving Firefox. A Mozilla developer posted Monday that favicons, those little identifying images that sites can design for themselves, will be removed from Firefox's address bar in a future release. The reason is for security. Some websites with less than honest intent have caught on and set their favicon to a padlock, which can then fool visitors into incorrectly thinking that they are on a secure connection. Not anymore. Jared Wein, a software engineer at Mozilla, explained how the new Firefox address bar will look. Websites that use SSL certificates with Extended Validation will have a green padlock next to the certificates owner's organization name. Websites that use SSL without Extended Validation will have a gray padlock. Finally, websites that do not use SSL certificates, or have mixed content, will now display a generic globe icon instead of the favicon. Wein updated his blog post Tuesday to clarify that favicons will not be disappearing from tabs, bookmarks or Awesomebar suggestions in Firefox. The change, which is already in the Nightly build, will reach Firefox's Release channel in mid-July, according to Wein. Details on the change and its resolution can be found in its Bugzilla entry, Bug 742419. :view: View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcs18 Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Favicons will be removed from Firefox's address bar by mid-July, due to a security issue stemming from malicious sites using a lock icon to fool users into thinking they're on a secure connection.I think Jared Wein is dreaming and has not yet tried the nightly 15.0a1 - FavIcons are not waiting until July (they're already gone from the Location Bar.) :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted April 25, 2012 Author Administrator Share Posted April 25, 2012 Favicons will be removed from Firefox's address bar by mid-July, due to a security issue stemming from malicious sites using a lock icon to fool users into thinking they're on a secure connection.I think Jared Wein is dreaming and has not yet tried the nightly 15.0a1 - FavIcons are not waiting until July (they're already gone from the Location Bar.) :D I think NeoWin interpreted it wrong or targeted the stable version in here. From the Jared Wein blog: Starting with yesterday’s Nightly build of Firefox, we have introduced a change to how we display site-identity in the address bar. These changes are intended to increase the security of our users as well as reduce some visual weight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iaTa Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Cue favicon address bar re-enabler addon... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visualbuffs Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 wtf ..... !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digimon Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 i dont relly mind them going as long as there still on the tabs if they removed them from tabs then id switch browsers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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