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When Yahoos url appears a rectangle shaped icon shows to left of the lock. A key and the rectangle was to the left of lock icon on different url. What are they?

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os windows xp professional version

On some urls that appear in the address bar, a key icon and a rectangle icon with 2 dashes over the top appear to the left of the lock icon, What are they for? Thanks Greg.

edit: removed your mail address from public display, since the only thing it will attract are spam bots. you will be notified per mail once somebody replies to the thread. (philipp)

os windows xp professional version On some urls that appear in the address bar, a key icon and a rectangle icon with 2 dashes over the top appear to the left of the lock icon, What are they for? Thanks Greg. <sub>edit: removed your mail address from public display, since the only thing it will attract are spam bots. you will be notified per mail once somebody replies to the thread. (philipp)</sub>

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Hi, I'm wondering if you are referring to the Plugin icon, which looks like a grey Lego brick. There is more about the Site Identity Button here - you can also see the plugin icon.

Hope that helps.

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You can get a possibly colored Lego block icon on the left end of the location bar that indicates that Firefox is blocking a plugin.

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That explains the rectangle, but what is the key icon to the left of the lego block?

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Hmm, don't know for sure, although some time ago, I do recall seeing a red key in connection with AOL mail.