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I like how Firefox changes the URL area background when I am on a https connection. It is good to give more feedback.

With all of the phishing and pharming going on now-a-days, it would be cool to do more things like that.

For example, what if the background went red when you went to a URL that was looked up via /etc/hosts (and equiv) instead of DNS.

Not only would this help you realise that something could be wrong in your hosts file, but I also forget that I have put some items in there. The other day I thought a site was down when in fact I had it in my hosts file and the site had changed locations!