Re: How to stop Firefox from displaying large favicon?
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Dennis Wicks <wix@mgssub.com> wrote:
>
> I have looked for ways to fix this problem several times in the passed few
> months and have had no success.
>
> Recently several companies have started displaying a large favicon in the
> address bar when you go to their site. In several cases it takes up over
> half of the space in the address bar and makes it extremely difficult to
> read the URL.
>
> One site even claimed that this is a "security feature" as it would enable
> the users to tell they were really on the bank's site and not some scammer
> of phisher site. Sure! Like nobody else could figure out how to do that!
>
> Anyway, can anyone tell me how to get rid of these eyesores?
> I have already set browser.chrome.favicons and browser.chrome.site_icons to
> false and browser.chrome.image_icons.max_size to 0, but no difference!
about:config
browser.identity.ssl_domain_display
is probably what you are looking for (and it is a security feature)
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