Rated 3 out of 5 stars

by LinZilla on Sept. 27, 2013 · permalink

Certificate Patrol fills a gap in browser security, but does so at the cost of frightening popups that are far beyond most users. After recommending Certificate Patrol as part of a security overhaul, 0 out of 8 users are still using the software after 1 week. This is entirely due to the number of type and number of alerts for popular websites such as Twitter.

Adopting a strategy such as SSLEverywhere's observatory to verify certificates or just including IDs with the extension to verify like Chrome would go a long way to improving usability. As it stands, I would love to recommend or use the plugin, but it just isn't there yet.