On 9/5/08 1:16 PM, _Richard Fry_ spoke thusly:
> FF 2.0.0.16 sometimes will not show a secure connection (yellow
> background for URL and padlock at bottom of window) even though the URL
> is for a secure site.
>
> Is this just a failure of these indicators within FF, or is the
> connection truly not secure?
>
> Closing and re-starting FF will resume normal indications on secure
> sites for a while, at least.

One or more elements of the web page are being provided by a non-secure
connection. It could be an image or script.

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Chris Ilias
List-owner: support-firefox, support-thunderbird, test-multimedia

Chris Ilias wrote:
> On 9/5/08 1:16 PM, _Richard Fry_ spoke thusly:
>> FF 2.0.0.16 sometimes will not show a secure connection (yellow
>> background for URL and padlock at bottom of window) even though the
>> URL is for a secure site.
>>
>> Is this just a failure of these indicators within FF, or is the
>> connection truly not secure?
>>
>> Closing and re-starting FF will resume normal indications on secure
>> sites for a while, at least.
>
> One or more elements of the web page are being provided by a non-secure
> connection. It could be an image or script.
>
Should the image not be "broken", in that case? Mixed encryption should
show as broken.

"EE" wrote
>> One or more elements of the web page are being provided by a non-secure
>> connection. It could be an image or script.
>>
> Should the image not be "broken", in that case? Mixed encryption should
> show as broken.
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But when I close and re-load FF after this "anomaly," and then go to the
same, secure URL address where the anomaly was showing in FF -- FF shows
that site as secure.

So it couldn't be from a mixed URL, could it?