Posted Friday 4th January 2008 17:28 GMT

I think the issue is that:

"Google Account (https://www.google.com)'' Certified by Verisign: blahblah click ''Certificate"

is a VALID realm! ( I think...)

Firefox SHOULDN'T sanitise this... Although FF could display things a little better to make it clear which site you're giving details to.

But imho FF hasn't really got a security bug; more of a layout/clarity issue.

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