Good. Also, I recently poked the bear on the chromium and mozilla dev security mailing lists, and they started discussing ways to push https in the browser UI. Hopefully this momentum continues!
The gray icon might as well not be there as far as consumers are concerned and blue vs green crossing guard icons really fail to indicate anything of use to an end user.
If you want to see a big list of SSL UI screenshots, I have them up at:
I disagree. It's not that I don't think that secure websites are preferable, but instead I see Google's growing influence being able to shape the web the way Google wants it to be, and them being perfectly willing to use that influence. You can argue that the things they are doing now are making the web better. But are we assured that this will always be the case?
What happens if this influence turns completely and more directly self-serving? Such as, Google adwords customers are given higher organic ranking, weighted by how much they spend?
At first glance it might appear that such a scheme would work against adwords, but it really wouldn't because the ad-click advertising just doesn't work for a lot of us, but organic search does.
Checkout how FF renders a standard domain validated cert on a site versus one with extended green bar validation:
https://www.expeditedssl.com/assets/browser-ssl/thumbs/stand...
https://www.expeditedssl.com/assets/browser-ssl/thumbs/exten...
The gray icon might as well not be there as far as consumers are concerned and blue vs green crossing guard icons really fail to indicate anything of use to an end user.
If you want to see a big list of SSL UI screenshots, I have them up at:
https://www.expeditedssl.com/pages/visual-security-browser-s...