Ubuntu
firefox package

Firefox should use SSL enabled search bar

Bug #552129 reported by Kip Warner
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
firefox (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox

Ubuntu should consider downstream patching Firefox to use an SSL enabled search bar. This would mean changing the standard entries, for which there are SSL alternatives, such as Wikipedia, Amazon, etc.. Right now all default query engines, and likely subsequent browsing prompted through the query's results, are unsafe.

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Kip Warner (kip)
description: updated
Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)
security vulnerability: yes → no
visibility: private → public
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Fred (eldmannen+launchpad) wrote :

It should now use SSL for Google and Twitter.

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Fred (eldmannen+launchpad) wrote :

Wolfram|Alpha, YouTube and Wikipedia still does not use HTTPS though. :(

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Fred (eldmannen+launchpad) wrote :

Use Wikipedia's HTTPS search by default
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758857

Firefox search bar not using Secure search
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45765

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