GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 151519
Inappropriate label for accepting untrusted certificate
Last modified: 2005-08-07 21:15:44 UTC
I compare Mozilla's and Epiphany's popups when connecting to a SSL page where the site certificate is not signed by a trusted CA. Try https://developer.berlios.de/ Suppose you want to trust and store the site certificate anyways. Mozilla gives you the option "Accept this certificate permanently", whereas in Epiphany you do this by selecting "Don't show this message again for this site" before connecting. That implies that even if the certificate changes later on, everything will look OK and no further notifications will be given. However I assume what will happen is that there _will_ be a notification, as would be appropriate. Therefore, maybe that particular text should be altered, or even the dialog look more like the Mozilla one?
Crispin, what do you think?
Its a good point that the message implies the wrong thing. When I did these dialogs, we discussed having at as 'Accept this certificate permanently', but we decided against it for some reason, I can't remember why though now :-( The dialog should certainly NOT look like mozilla's, which is huge (660 x 400), and is inconsistent, e.g. clicking cancel is exactly the same as selecting one of the radio buttons and clicking "ok". Hmm, Looking at the dialog now, I think the reason we didn't say "Accept this certifiate permanently" was that the main text doesn't really refer the a certificate. See also bug 127234 for another text issue with this dialog.
Mass reassigning of Epiphany bugs to epiphany-maint@b.g.o
Target Milestone: 1.6 -> 1.8
Someone please think of a better string before string freeze :)
I don't really see any problems with renaming it "Accept this certificate permanently" Whatever we say, the average user just isn't going to understand properly :-/
Thanks for the bug report, this particular string has been altered in CVS: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/cvs-commits-list/2005-August/msg01821.html