Also, a "find" bar "on" all the time in a browser (as if someone hit ctrl-f when the page opened) so people realize they can actually search in a page instead of slowly scrolling and wasting their time.
Only a handful of sites use SSL certs, but every site uses cookies. Many sites use multiple cookies. Can you imagine the nightmare of that many popups asking you about every cookie?
A small sidebar widget that opened when clicked to give you a clear view of the cookies that are associated with the current page, with a quick 'delete' on each or all if you're not comfortable with the info there, would be great.
It shouldn't require firebug or 4-5 levels of "advanced" preferences menus to view stuff like that. That level of hiddenness contributes to paranoia about stupid stuff. In some sense we're a bit past that (I'm thinkin 1997-2000 era panic about "cookies") but it still continues with new generations of users, and it's not gotten any easier to view this fundamental stuff that's being tracked right on your own computer.