Please note that there are changes to the visual theme that have landed since the beta 5 branch, so you can check out a nightly trunk build (if you dare) to see it transform each day before your eyes.

Firefox 3 has much improved user interface for indicating that a connection is secure and a site’s identity is verified. The following issues are fixed:

- If a secure page contained some non-secure items, the address bar previously indicated the connection was secure. It doesn’t anymore.

- If a secure site uses an invalid certificate or untrusted certificate (such as a self-signed certificate), the address bar previously indicated the connection was secure, even though it popped up a warning. Such sites are now blocked, with the option of creating an exception on a per-certificate basis.

- A secure connection with a trusted certificate where only the hostname is verified is indicated by a yellow address bar. A secure connection with a trusted certificate with verified identity information (ie a company name) is indicated by a green bar in the address bar along with the name of the company (or person) who is the verified certificate holder. What this means to the user is that yellow is secure but you can’t be sure who you are connected to, and green is “more secure” because you do know who you are connected to.

dave

I hope it stays that way but will probably be fixed.

FF3 b5 is terrible though, I’ve downgraded back to b4 after far too many freezes and crashes. The new UI on vista is horrible too, the tab-bar background and favicon area make the interface look broken. They simply don’t work well. Especially if you have Persona’s installed. Not impressed at all with b5.