Firefox 3 New 'Secure' URL Bar

Since the advent of SSL by Netscape, the yellow URL bar has been integrated to web browser. While the yellow bar means 'encrypted', many people consider it as 'secure'. (We all know they are not equal). Surely, there are a lot of frauds using this mental exploit.

Some folks in Mozilla raised this issue. Then it became a security roadmap in Firefox 3. New and effective way to indicate the identity.

At first, I didn't care about this much. But today, with PayPal transaction, I see it in action. Quite nice. Very Distinguishable.

Firefox 3 New Security

P.S. Anyway, sometimes I'm quite annoyed with too restrict certificate policy in Firefox 3.

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