Of course it must be https://, no discussion. ;) Or would anyone want to transmit their search queries via plaintext? Such betraying/abusive/illegal behavior should be stopped immediately. Otherwise users would trust AMO and lose privacy for another 2 months (until Firefox 68 is released). * AMO's error message is misleading: "Download failed. Please check your connection." * Broken addons should either be removed from AMO or tagged as broken and not appear in search results by default. * Only if tried to install from file we get a more reasonable message: "This addon could not be installed because it appears to be corrupt." * If you would add a browser-side workaround to upgrade to https, addon authors might rest on this. * Please notifiy addon authors as soon as possible and/or replace http:// with https:// in their sourcecodes.
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Of course it must be https://, no discussion. ;) Or would anyone want to transmit their search queries via plaintext? Such betraying/abusive/illegal behavior should be stopped immediately. Otherwise users would trust AMO and lose privacy for another 2 months (until Firefox 68 is released). * AMO's error message is misleading: "Download failed. Please check your connection." * Broken addons should either be removed from AMO or tagged as broken and not appear in search results by default. * Only if tried to install from file we get a more reasonable message: "This addon could not be installed because it appears to be corrupt." * If you would add a browser-side workaround to upgrade to https, addon authors might rest on this. * Please notify addon authors as soon as possible and/or replace http:// with https:// in their sourcecodes.
Of course it must be https://, no discussion. ;) Or would anyone want to transmit their search queries via plaintext? Such betraying/abusive/illegal behavior should be stopped immediately. Otherwise users would trust AMO and lose privacy for another 2 months (until Firefox 68 is released). * AMO's error message is misleading: "Download failed. Please check your connection." * Broken addons should either be removed from AMO or tagged as broken and not appear in search results by default. * Only if tried to install from file we get a more reasonable message: "This addon could not be installed because it appears to be corrupt." * If you would add a browser-side workaround to upgrade to https, addon authors might rest on this. * Please notify search extension authors as soon as possible and/or replace http:// with https:// in their sourcecodes.
Of course it must be https://, no discussion. ;) Or would anyone want to transmit their search queries via plaintext? Such betraying/abusive/illegal behavior should be stopped immediately. Otherwise users would trust AMO and lose privacy for another 2 months (until Firefox 68 is released). * AMO's error message is misleading: "Download failed. Please check your connection." * Broken addons should either be removed from AMO or tagged as broken and not appear in search results by default. * Only if tried to install from file we get a more reasonable message: "This addon could not be installed because it appears to be corrupt." * If you would add a browser-side workaround to upgrade to https, addon authors might rest on this. * Please notify (those few?) search extension authors as soon as possible and/or replace http:// with https:// in their sourcecodes.