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anticensor • 10/03/2024 • 1 reply • view on HN

And, when a self-signed certificate is in use, the browser should show a prominent icon of self-configured security.


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fwn • 10/05/2024

> And, when a self-signed certificate is in use, the browser should show a prominent icon of self-configured security.

..and there should of course be a way to disable that prominent icon of self-configured security.

Because Firefox, unlike most software, is designed to be a user agent.

While it may be natural for Google, for example, to constantly nag Chrome users for non-standard behaviour, Mozilla should not do the same with Firefox.