about:startpage says it's a "secure Firefox page", but it's not

Bug #1286642 reported by jmorahan
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Bug Description

Visit the default Firefox start page.

Expected behaviour:
A secure web page is loaded and displayed, OR the URL bar displays the grey globe icon and (on clicking the icon) "This web site does not provide identity information" etc.

Actual behaviour:
An insecure (HTTP) web page, http://start.ubuntu.com/12.04/Google?sourceid=hp is loaded (via about:startpage) and displayed, but the URL bar displays a Firefox icon and (on clicking the icon) "This is a secure Firefox page".

Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS

ubufox 2.7-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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jmorahan (wunderland) wrote :

This seems to have been fixed at some point, as in Firefox 45.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 with ubufox 3.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 about:startpage now correctly says "Connection is not secure".

Of course it would be better if the connection *was* secure, but oh well.

I dunno if it's still wrong in 12.04 or not.

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