Shield Icon?

Hello,
As of today, I keep seeing a shield icon pop up whenever I'm on certain pages on Tumblr. I did not see this icon pop up yesterday, nor did I change any settings from yesterday. As such, I have no clue why it would show up today.
This icon only shows up when I am on Tumblr's Dashboard, Queue, Draft, etc pages. It does not show up on Non-Tumblr pages, or when I go on to actual blogs on Tumblr.
I have tried fixing the problem by updating, removing add-ons/plugins, and going into safe mode, but have had no luck.
I find this feature a bit distracting. While everything does seem to work as it should, and it is something I could learn to get used to if nothing can be done about it, I still have some questions:
1) Why is this feature suddenly coming up? I have not had it come up (with such frequency, anyways) before, so why is it coming up now, seeing as I have not made any changes, nor does it seem that Tumblr has made any changes either.
2) Is there any way to disable (or at the very least, make the shield icon not show) this feature without having the orange triangle icon come up?

You get the shield when you are on a secure page that has content coming via an open http connection.
You can see what content that is in the Web Console (Firefox/Tools > Web Developer).
Mixed content should appear as red text.
You can reload web page(s) and bypass the cache to generate the log.
*Hold down the Shift key and left-click the Reload button
*Press "Ctrl + F5" or press "Ctrl + Shift + R" (Windows,Linux)
*Press "Command + Shift + R" (Mac)
If there is mixed passive content (e.g. images) coming via an open connection then Firefox shows an exclamation mark instead of "[[Site Identity Button|Site Identity Button]]" (globe/padlock) on the location/address bar.

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