Visual indication of user role in an address bar

A system for visually indicating a role of a user in a computing environment, comprising:

• a computing device having a viewing screen;
• an address bar viewable on the viewing screen for receipt of a URL of a website;
• and
• an icon viewable in or near the address bar having a form indicative of the role of the user as the user visits a web site having the URL.

A system having a viewing screen and user input mechanisms, including a pointer, to visually indicate a user role in a computing environment, comprising:

• a web browser visually displayable on the viewing screen of a computing device in the computing environment;
• an address bar as part of the web browser for receipt of a URL to point at a website of a host computing device;
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• an icon in or near the address bar having a form indicative of the role of the user of the web browser upon visiting the website of the host computing device, the icon having no form indicative of the website of the host computing device.

A method of visually indicating a user role in a computing environment, comprising:

• logging a user onto a computing device of the computing environment, the computing device having a browser with an address bar visually displayable on a viewing screen of the computing device;
• from the computing device, visiting a website on a host computing device by way of a URL in the address bar of the browser;
• and
• displaying an icon in or near the address bar on the viewing screen, the icon having a form indicative of a role of the user as the user visits the website as obtained from the logging.