Firefox does not use HTTPS by default

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Firefox should use HTTPS by default or at least allow a user to make that choice.

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I noticed that on many sites like Bing, Google, Youtube, etc. Firefox still uses HTTP not HTTPS. If I log into my Google account, Youtube account, Gmail, etc. Firefox still uses HTTP. Thankfully, Firefox does use HTTPS with money transfers and purchases.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Can you be a little bit more specific?

Firefox will use https whenever you tell it to (by navigating to a https URL), or whenever the server tells it to (either via a redirect from a http resource to a https resource, or if the server supports the HSTS protocol; in which case Firefox will only connect to that resource via https for whatever time was specified in the HSTS policy).

Searching in Google from the searchbar in Firefox uses https by default. And when I log in to Google, it automatically redirects me to their https endpoint (the redirect is done by Google. This is not Firefox policy). I'm not sure what problem you're having with Google, because the information you've supplied is quite vague.

[Sean Fenton (bobodod)]

I agree SSL/TLS by default would be grand, but there are probably several reasons why it's not a good idea. You can get the functionality you're looking for with the EFF's HTTPS Everywhere extension for Firefox and Chrome/Chromium: https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere

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