Extended validation SSL certificates do not show "green" in URL bar

Bug #284964 reported by Wolfgang
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firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Since Firefox 3 extended validation SSL certificates (e.g. from Verisign) should show with a green URL bar and information about the owner of the domain.

This feature seems not to work, or not to be active in Ubuntu. I tested several sites with EV certificates, like https://www.paypal.com/ while they show up with a green URL bar and site owner in Firefox-3 on Windows/Mac or even in IE7, they do not in Firefox on Ubuntu.

I add two screenshots
- FF3 in Windows XP
- FF3 in Ubuntu 8.10

Version Information:
noone@nowhere:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu intrepid (development branch)
Release: 8.10

Source: firefox-3.0
Version: 3.0.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu1

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Wolfgang (wt-lists) wrote :
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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote : Re: [Bug 284964] [NEW] Extended validation SSL certificates do not show "green" in URL bar

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:56:33PM -0000, Wolfgang wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: firefox-3.0
>
> Since Firefox 3 extended validation SSL certificates (e.g. from
> Verisign) should show with a green URL bar and information about the
> owner of the domain.
>
> This feature seems not to work, or not to be active in Ubuntu. I tested
> several sites with EV certificates, like https://www.paypal.com/ while
> they show up with a green URL bar and site owner in Firefox-3 on
> Windows/Mac or even in IE7, they do not in Firefox on Ubuntu.

Paypal works fine here (green thing shown on the urlbar) on my
ubuntu/intrepd 3.0.3 firefox. Maybe you have extensions installed that
conflict with this feature? try to disable all you have.

 status incomplete

 - Alexander

Changed in firefox-3.0:
status: New → Incomplete
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Wolfgang (wt-lists) wrote :

I confirm that this bug seems to be a problem with my specific installation. The SSL green bar works fine for me on other Ubuntu installations.

However, I tried
$ firefox -safe-mode
(so disabled all add-ons) and firefox still shows no "green" bar.

What helps is removing the $HOME/.mozilla directory, after that firefox shows the green SSL-EV bar again. As I seem to be the only one experiencing the problem its fine for me if the bug is closed.

br
Wolfgang

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Victor Vargas (kamus) wrote :

This bug report is being closed due to your last comment regarding this being fixed with an update. Thank you again for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better, best regards.

Changed in firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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