No coloring for https:// links in URL bar
Mumia Wotse
Now, with FX 3.0rc1, the links have normal coloring (black on white).
I hope this is just a bug because I liked the yellow highlighting from
before. I'm running Firefox under Debian 4.0 (i386) with a self-compiled
gtk+ 2.10.14. My window manager is IceWm.
Note: This is the case with the default theme. When I install and use an
alternate theme (Azerzy III), the highlighting for https:// links is back.
PS. I attempted to post this to the betatesters mail-list, but the
moderator is evidently NP (not present).
David McRitchie
Hi Mumia,
It is not a bug, it was quite deliberate. I forget the reasoning of dropping the
color on the location bar, and the padlock at the right end of the location bar.
But what the developers want you to do is to click on the favicon at the left
of the location bar to see if it is verified.
Incidentally many users clicked on the favicon to select the location bar
you get the same when click once more to get rid of the popup.
Ctrl+L selects the location bar, same as before, and
Ctrl+K does same for the builtin searchbox.
You could logon to Hendrix and express your opinion, only your opinion, as
you will not get an answer there so don't ask a question there. If you are
successful it probably just means that some documentation will be improved,
too late now for any serious changes to Version 3. http://hendrix.mozilla.org
I don't think much of Hendrix, because most people are either asking questions
or reporting things for which there is a solution, and they will never be told.
But that seems to be the main place that seems to count for getting things changed.
With bugzilla once you get a justified or unjustified WONTFIX or similar answer
you request and any similar request is almost certainly doomed. forever with
little chance of reevaluation.
Here are links for you
Bug 417844 - SSL appearance for site identity button and location bar should be consistent across platforms
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=417844
Bug 430790 - Users can be tricked into thinking sites are encrypted with new visual cues added by bug 417844
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=430790
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=656581&start=0&sid=f854154c6ea63f70e6e45b275962b9fd
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=643573&sid=4dddf53205bcff0fc1347c380ada0d1b
--
HTH,
David McRitchie, extensions I use are briefly documented on my site
Firefox Custom: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/firefox.htm
David McRitchie
> moderator is evidently NP (not present).
Was that in lowercase, as "np" is a Jason Barnabe.
David McRitchie
That looks a bit strange, it was supposed to be
"np" or "Np" is a real live person named Jason Barnabe
Mumia Wotse
> With FX 2.0, https:// links were colored yellow in the location bar.
>
This affects FX 3.0rc2 also.
The old coloring probably needs to be restored, because it's unsafe for
people to be confused about the security of the website they are visiting.
David McRitchie
> The old coloring probably needs to be restored, because it's unsafe for people to be confused about the security of the website
> they are visiting.
If you go to an unsafe site that popup that you see by clicking on the
favicon of the location bar is an automatic in your face display of a
problem based on downloads of bad site. I don't know if there is a
fake popup for demonstration purposes.
There is a picture in the following blog
with big warning on the picture "Reported attack site!"
http://dailydiy.com/2008/05/21/top-10-firefox-3-features/
so with that information here is a better web page and description
Firefox 3: Site Identification button « Feed The Net
http://feedthenet.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/firefox-3-site-identification-button/
Sonny
You can try this in your userChrome.css file:
@namespace
url(http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul);
#urlbar[level=high][pageproxystate=valid] > .autocomplete-textbox-container
,
#urlbar[level=high][pageproxystate=valid] > .autocomplete-history-dropmarker
{
background-color: #FFFF72 !important;
}
Mumia Wotse
> "Mumia Wotse"
>
> There is a picture in the following blog
> with big warning on the picture "Reported attack site!"
> http://dailydiy.com/2008/05/21/top-10-firefox-3-features/
>
> so with that information here is a better web page and description
> Firefox 3: Site Identification button « Feed The Net
> http://feedthenet.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/firefox-3-site-identification-button/
>
Thanks David.
The links you posted, both in this message and in your previous one¹,
explain the changes very well.
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¹
http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.support.firefox/msg/3b12c52807244861
Sonny
"Sonny" <sraz...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:M8udnV7tJt3TV93V...@mozilla.org...
#urlbar[level=high][pageproxystate=valid] > .autocomplete-textbox-container
,
#urlbar[level=high][pageproxystate=valid] > .autocomplete-history-dropmarker
{
url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAIAAAAUCAYAAACnOeyiAAAAaklEQVR42mOcsO3JfwYgYCxY8gjCyJj/EMJInPMAwoieeR/CCJ12D8LwnwxleE64C2G49N2BMOx7bkMYCtXXIAzlhusQhmb7DQhDv+8WhGE2DarLZi7UHKclULvcV0Ft99sIdVjxkadgBgD1mjdH4HL+OAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==)
repeat-x !important;
color: white !important;
}
»Q«
I always hated the yellow, which I think of as a "caution" color.
AIUI, yellow was used for SSL because the padlock icons had always
been that color. I see David has posted links to info about the site
ID stuff in Fx 3. If you still want the location bar colored for
encrypted connections, it's still possible. Either putting this in
userChrome.css or using the Stylish extension to manage it will work:
/* SSL coloring */
#urlbar[level="high"][pageproxystate="valid"] > .autocomplete-textbox-container,
#urlbar[level="low"][pageproxystate="valid"] > .autocomplete-textbox-container,
#urlbar[level="high"][pageproxystate="valid"] #autocomplete-security-wrapper,
#urlbar[level="low"][pageproxystate="valid"] #autocomplete-security-wrapper {
background-color: #D0FFD0 !important; /* default was #F7F898; */
color: #000000 !important;
}
#urlbar[level="broken"][pageproxystate="valid"] > .autocomplete-textbox-container,
#urlbar[level="broken"][pageproxystate="valid"] #autocomplete-security-wrapper {
background-color: #FFFFD0 !important;
color: #000000 !important;
}
Andrew DeFaria
Andrew DeFaria
When something is "new and improved!". Which is it? If it's new, then there has never been anything before it. If it's an improvement, then there must have been something before it.
Sonny
"Andrew DeFaria" <And...@DeFaria.com> wrote in message
news:JIOdnZ2Z69cdet3V...@mozilla.org...
Try this Andrew:
#urlbar[level=high][pageproxystate=valid] > .autocomplete-textbox-container,
Sonny
Sonny
OK, I just copied and pasted the code and it works.
»Q«
I should note that #D0FFD0 probably isn't a good choice -- it's too close to the
green used by the new site ID stuff. I think #F7F898 was the old yellow color.
Andrew DeFaria
Did not look like it wrapped correctly, try this again:
#urlbar[level=high][pageproxystate=valid] > .autocomplete-textbox-container,
#urlbar[level=high][pageproxystate=valid] > .autocomplete-history-dropmarker
{
background:
url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAIAAAAUCAYAAACnOeyiAAAAaklEQVR42mOcsO3JfwYgYCxY8gjCyJj/EMJInPMAwoieeR/CCJ12D8LwnwxleE64C2G49N2BMOx7bkMYCtXXIAzlhusQhmb7DQhDv+8WhGE2DarLZi7UHKclULvcV0Ft99sIdVjxkadgBgD1mjdH4HL+OAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==)
repeat-x !important;
color: white !important;
}
Sonny
"Andrew DeFaria" <And...@DeFaria.com> wrote in message
Try this again, I put the code all on on line:
#urlbar[level=low][pageproxystate=valid]>.autocomplete-textbox-container,#urlbar[level=low][pageproxystate=valid]>.autocomplete-history-dropmarker,#urlbar[level=high][pageproxystate=valid]>.autocomplete-textbox-container,#urlbar[level=high][pageproxystate=valid]>.autocomplete-history-dropmarker{background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAIAAAAUCAYAAACnOeyiAAAAaklEQVR42mOcsO3JfwYgYCxY8gjCyJj/EMJInPMAwoieeR/CCJ12D8LwnwxleE64C2G49N2BMOx7bkMYCtXXIAzlhusQhmb7DQhDv+8WhGE2DarLZi7UHKclULvcV0Ft99sIdVjxkadgBgD1mjdH4HL+OAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==)repeat-x!important;color:white!important;}
Mumia Wotse
> "Mumia Wotse" <paduille.4061....@earthlink.net> wrote [...]
>>
>> The old coloring probably needs to be restored, because it's unsafe for
>> people to be confused about the security of the website they are visiting.
>
> You can try this in your userChrome.css file:
> @namespace
> url(http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul);
> #urlbar[level=high][pageproxystate=valid] > .autocomplete-textbox-container
> ,
> #urlbar[level=high][pageproxystate=valid] > .autocomplete-history-dropmarker
> {
> background-color: #FFFF72 !important;
> }
>
>
Thanks. The security icon changes make sense to me now, so I'll probably
learn to live with them.
Andrew DeFaria
Try this again, I put the code all on on line:
#urlbar[level=low][pageproxystate=valid]>.autocomplete-textbox-container,#urlbar[level=low][pageproxystate=valid]>.autocomplete-history-dropmarker,#urlbar[level=high][pageproxystate=valid]>.autocomplete-textbox-container,#urlbar[level=high][pageproxystate=valid]>.autocomplete-history-dropmarker{background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAIAAAAUCAYAAACnOeyiAAAAaklEQVR42mOcsO3JfwYgYCxY8gjCyJj/EMJInPMAwoieeR/CCJ12D8LwnwxleE64C2G49N2BMOx7bkMYCtXXIAzlhusQhmb7DQhDv+8WhGE2DarLZi7UHKclULvcV0Ft99sIdVjxkadgBgD1mjdH4HL+OAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==)repeat-x!important;color:white!important;}
I thought that this might be influenced by the Fission add on I have but I disabled that and still nothing.
Sonny
"Andrew DeFaria" <And...@DeFaria.com> wrote in message
All of this goes into your userChrome.css file:
@namespace
url(http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul);