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Security logo for financial sites is not appearing

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Security logo for financial sites is not appearing since upgrading from 3.6 to 6.

Security logo for financial sites is not appearing since upgrading from 3.6 to 6.

Isisombulu esikhethiweyo

In Firefox 4 and later you no longer have the Status bar that showed the padlock in previous Firefox versions.
The padlock only shows that there is a secure connection and doesn't guarantee that you are connected to the right server.
So you might still be connected to the wrong server if you make a typo in the URL and someone has claimed that mistyped URL.
The functionality of the padlock has been replaced by the How do I tell if my connection to a website is secure? on the left end of the location bar.

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You can use this extension to get a padlock on the location bar.

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Isisombululo esiKhethiweyo

In Firefox 4 and later you no longer have the Status bar that showed the padlock in previous Firefox versions.
The padlock only shows that there is a secure connection and doesn't guarantee that you are connected to the right server.
So you might still be connected to the wrong server if you make a typo in the URL and someone has claimed that mistyped URL.
The functionality of the padlock has been replaced by the How do I tell if my connection to a website is secure? on the left end of the location bar.

See also:

You can use this extension to get a padlock on the location bar.

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Thank you so much for the information. I certainly had a false belief as to what the padlock represented.

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You're welcome