I don't think many people pay much attention to the address bar, let alone a little lock icon with a red line through it.
If they want to get serious about it, they should just disable http support and require https for all actions. Or throw up a big in-your-face warning on http pages, not just make a small change to an obscure icon that nobody really understands.
> If they want to get serious about it, they should just disable http support and require https for all actions. Or throw up a big in-your-face warning on http pages, not just make a small change to an obscure icon that nobody really understands.
Even though I agree with you, I think that it's still a little bit too early for that. My prediction is that the browsers are going to start experimenting with this near the end of 2016 and that it'll become a part of stable versions of browsers somewhere in 2017.
If they want to get serious about it, they should just disable http support and require https for all actions. Or throw up a big in-your-face warning on http pages, not just make a small change to an obscure icon that nobody really understands.