Idea #10133: add "try to use https when available" option to firefox

Written by tgomas the 21 Jun 08 at 10:27. Category: Security.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New

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With this option checked firefox should try all url with https:// even when an url starts with http://
of course if the url isn't available, it try again with http://

maybe apply only for urls from links, not manually typed.

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Arnaudus wrote on the 21 Jun 08 at 11:06

Your idea is not clear about one point: is this option already available in Firefox (but not activated by default), or is it necessary to program it? In the first case, this is indeed Ubuntu's responsibility to make choices like that, but in the second case, it's a "just do it" idea. An add-on could be the solution --Firefox relies on modularity.

By the way, I think exactly the contrary of your last sentence. It should be activated when typing the URL in the address bar (because Firefox does not require the http://www stuff) but not from links.

tgomas wrote on the 21 Jun 08 at 13:51

The option don't yet exist. An add-on could be a good solution.

For my last sentence I was thinking about typing explicitely the http://. It was a way not to use tls/ssl even with the option activated, but since most urls typed starting with http:// are in fact copied/pasted from links it is probably not usefull. Always trying to use tls/ssl if you activates the option seems to be a better way.

Primož Papič wrote on the 21 Jun 08 at 14:01

To put it rudely: Well make an add-on yourself.
Why should canonical do it for you?

You would but you probably don't have programming skills for this. Like me...
Try to find something similar to Ubuntu Brainstorm at mozilla / firefox and propose it there.
I give you a 0.

Eldmannen wrote on the 21 Jun 08 at 18:25

Interesting proposal.
Too bad too few sites have SSL.

I guess you could try to script an extension.

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