Firefox Plugins – VeriSign EV Green Bar Extension

This plugin adds a visual confirmation that the secure wensite your viewing is actually secure. It was written by Verisign, a known and reputable internet Security company.

This is what Barry Ferg, the developer has to say about it;

“Enables Firefox to recognize SSL servers that have implemented the Extended Validation Certificate as currently supported by Microsoft in IE7. Installing this extension brings identical functionality to Firefox.”

If the website your viewing is secure and they are using the Extended Validation Certificate then your address bar will turn green.

You can test it by going to https://www.paypal.com/, your address bar should be green if you have installed this plug in. And if the SSL certificate is a fake, then the address bar should turn red or just do nothing.

Get the plugin here;

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4828

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2 Responses to “Firefox Plugins – VeriSign EV Green Bar Extension”

  1. Don Bynum Says:
    August 30th, 2007 at 3:18 pm

    would love to see the source code for this extension.

  2. Allen Chan Says:
    October 2nd, 2007 at 11:51 am

    hey mike,

    cool plugin.. i installed it but it only works on some sites. I tried going to hsbc, bank of america, ing direct but doesn’t turn green. Ebay turns green tho.

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