[cap-talk] Testers needed (Was: Petname tool for Firefox 3.x?)

[Jed Donnelley]

At 02:19 PM 9/9/2008, Tyler Close wrote:
>On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 11:44 PM, Dean Tribble <dtribble at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Anything in particular I should check?
>
>There's some new behaviour if you go to a random HTTPS site and try to
>give it a petname similar to one you're currently using. It's
>fascinating that no one has stumbled onto this feature yet.

I guess you mean this:

http://www.webstart.com/projects/Petnames/petname-conflict.jpg

Why does it surprise you that nobody would run into it?  If you
are referring to the above, it would only happen if you try to give
two different sites the same Petname.  I don't think anybody
would try to do that intentionally - would they?  Still, it
seems a nice feature to bring such an error to the user's
attention.

I admit that the nuances of font and color are somewhat lost
on me.  I downloaded the latest and it works fine for me.
I explicitly look at the Petname toolbar in the relatively
rare case that I'm using an https site that I care about
(usually financial transactions).  I've trained my wife to
do so also, so issues of peripheral vision or ignoring text,
etc. I think aren't particularly relevant for our use.

We're very glad to have Petnames working again.  Thanks
Tyler!

--Jed  http://www.webstart.com/jed-signature.html