I am a Firefox user. One feature I want in Firefox is the display of the Organization (O) field of an X.509 certificate when SSL is used. Firefox currently shows a yellow location bar with a lock icon to indicate that an authenticated SSL session is in use. Hovering the mouse cursor over the lock icon shows the signing certificate authority who issued the certificate. I think that people would care to see the name of organization it was issued to, more than the certificate authority’s name (as we already have a trusted list of CAs [hopefully] in our browser).
Opera has this feature and the following screenshots compare Firefox 2 Beta 2 (BonEcho) to Opera:
Firefox:
Opera:
See my name there in the Opera screenshot? Basically what it means is that the certificate which the server has was authenticated by the issuing CA to belong to a person/organization with that name, and the browser has verified it.
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