- Apr 17, 2011
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Neowin.net said:A little bit of flavor is leaving Firefox. A Mozilla developer posted Monday that favicons, those little identifying images that sites can design for themselves, will be removed from Firefox's address bar in a future release.
The reason is for security. Some websites with less than honest intent have caught on and set their favicon to a padlock, which can then fool visitors into incorrectly thinking that they are on a secure connection. Not anymore.
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I kinda don't want this to happen, but if it has to it has to.