GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 309088
Frequent popup on pages with partly insecure elements
Last modified: 2011-03-08 01:43:39 UTC
Please describe the problem: When a https site contains non-https elements a popup appears: "Some parts of this page are loaded over an insecure connection" The problem is that it appears on every single page opened and has no "ignore next time" switch. Steps to reproduce: 1. Visit https://mail.gna.org/public/ammerum-cvs/2005-06/threads.html 2. Browse around the list archives. This is a royal pain, because the popup appears on every single page and can not be dismissed forever. Actual results: Expected results: Add a "Do not show this message again for this domain" switch. Does this happen every time? yap Other information:
What is the value of the pref "security.warn_viewing_mixed" in about:config? It should be 'false'.
about:config shows Preference: security.warn_viewing_mixed: Status: default Value: true I changed the value to "false", now the message doesn't appear anymore (at all), I don't know whether that is the intended default behavior. I use Ubuntu (epi 1.7.1-0ubuntu1) and upgraded from Warty -> Hoary -> Breezy, so the config was probably preserved from Warty. (?)
It's just a missing default pref. Although now I'm not sure what the default value should be... how important is this warning?
Just wanted you to know that it does that with sourceforge... Pretty annoying, I'd say. Try accessing sourceforge from the link on that page for example (because that's the most relevant example I have) http://veldstra.co.uk/websharing/
I don't really want to permanently disabling the dialogue. OTOH, if it's really annoying then people will just ignore it always on every site...
I think it should be displayed once by default, and I propose that the color of the address entry be changed to indicate the partial security... red? That way, the message is displayed, but only once, and the user has a constant indicator of the security of the page, just as the yellow address entry indicates a secure page.
*** Bug 478145 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Reporter(s), can you still reproduce this with the latest (webkit-based) Epiphany release?
In master this doesn't exist. I don't think we are detecting this kind of stuff at all. I'd close it, when we re-implement this warning we will notice if we do it wrong again :)
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for. Thanks!