Issue 302561: Android: simplify the display of security information in the page info bubble

This is done; strings agreed on in https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/document/d/1Db6KamnUbNmR0_h0QuAtlEvdM1N7hO06-72R8AhMFIs/edit.

However, *the old information is no longer available*. How do we feel about this? Where is a good place to surface the old information that was available, e.g. the specifics of the SSL certificate?

This is a good question. One suggestion was that people should get it in DevTools by plugging their phone in to a computer, but I don't know if that satisfies all use cases (might be frustrating for people w/o a computer).

Yeah, I am not super comfortable with the remote Dev Tools answer. Even if only because a handful of power users will complain.

Is putting a button in somewhere an option? It could be something like "More details" and go near the Copy URL button.

We could even work in some Chrome Task Manager style humour somewhere, e.g. "Details for nerds".

Ideally I would prefer a consistent solution, where Connection info is accessed from roughly the same place on both Clank and desktop. However, after talking with Chris about this it sounds like Connection info on Clank will only be used by a handful of power users, so we might as well go for the simplest solution on Clank that makes Connection info accessible without needing to plug their phone into a computer. 

All that is to say, +1 to putting an entry point from PageInfo on Clank, but moving Connection info to dev tools on desktop. Rebecca, suggestions on how to integrate the entry point in a subtle way that isn't easily stumbled upon by lay users? "Details for nerds" could be fun :)

Adding felt to this discussion - just to confirm, are we happy launching PageInfo in M40 on Android with no way of accessing the existing connection information? Do you think there will be users who will feel we've removed functionality from Android by making the detailed connection information inaccessible?

Re #10: I am comfortable with launching PageInfo in M40 with no way of accessing the detailed connection info. The new version is better for 99% of users, and we should not block it for a power user feature.

With that being said, we should continue working on it to figure out a solution for M41 or M42 so that both sets of users can have access to the information they need. (To be a bit selfish: I use the connection info tab myself, so I agree we should figure out the right way to make it reappear. :)

sashab@/egm@, is there already a bug open for the detailed connection info on Clank?

Just filed a design bug for it: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=425158

Closing this bug as we now have simplified security information. 425158 will now block the main bug until we add detailed security information back.

Re #11
97% of users will never even try to hit the padlock - they will just be happy to see the green https. So this change is only relevant to 3% of total users and it has made Android worse for a significant fraction of those users. Additionally, the impact to the people that used the feature is more significant than the improvement other people get.

My phone is part of the tool set I use at work and a feature it had when I purchased it has been removed.

My use case is checking externally presented certificates after updates etc. My computer is on the internal corporate network and won't hit the same interfaces so my Nexus 5 was a convenient way to check from the Internet side. I need to see the expiry date to know which cert I'm getting.

Re #15: you already have your wish, we've brought a link to connection info back into the lock. coming soon once the change rolls out to stable.

Just updated to ff 46.0 on android, latest from play store for my tablet, can't see security link from padlock. Just says 'mixed' or 'secure'. Not good enough - I need to see who issued the certificate and the details to report a security problem, or even to know whether I can trust the website. Right now I don't have a laptop with me, and even if I did the site might redirect differently for a mobile device. I shouldn't have to go to a developer build to get that. Ctrl-I does not seem to work, and very hard to generate anyway (3rd party keyboard app).

advax@triumf.ca: Do you mean Firefox 46.0? As far as I know Firefox doesn't use Chromium UI for this purpose so you'll probably want to contact them instead.

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