1638215 - Use HTTPS for CTRL+ENTER Fixup

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement, P3)

Description

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:76.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/76.0

Steps to reproduce:

Typed "firefox" in the address bar.
Pressed CTRL+ENTER.

Actual results:

http://www.firefox.com was entered.

Expected results:

I'm requesting an option to fixup with https.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.

Comment 2

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

May be a duplicate but didn't find it yet.

Comment 3

[Daisuke Akatsuka (:daisuke)]

Attachment: Bug 1638215: Use https for canonization the URL.

Comment 4

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/f59efe5a5ef8
Use https for canonization the URL. r=mak

Comment 5

[Narcis Beleuzu [:NarcisB]]

Backed out for bc failures on browser_tabDrop.js

Backout link: https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/d719cd701127b18e996f45d1198bc48b3023f686
Log link: https://treeherder.mozilla.org/logviewer?job_id=323444629&repo=autoland&lineNumber=2592

Comment 6

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/a4ca06311d43
Use https for canonization the URL. r=mak

Comment 7

[Cristina Coroiu [:ccoroiu]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/a4ca06311d43

Comment 8

[zeromus]

Folks, you just broke so many websites for people that use ctrl+enter to access sites that don't run a properly configured https and didn't intend to send anyone to https. Chrome and edge don't work this way. So end-users are seeing what is fairly described as "websites broken on firefox only". It's cool that you added an option "browser.fixup.alternate.protocol" , but you chose the wrong default.

Comment 9

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

This is an advanced feature, undiscoverable by non-technical users. The users of this feature are capable of using about:config to adapt it to their needs. We're moving towards https since it's the direction the Web is going.

Comment 10

[Albert]

Do not agree with the decision for ctrl+enter to default to https://. Yes, many sites are going to https://; however you are breaking all the domain names that are forwarded, since domains that are setup to be forwarded through domain registries, you are breaking those links. Web sites have the ability to direct http requests to an https site if they desire, so you should leave that decision and control to the individual web sites. The ctrl+enter default should be the lowest common web address that will work for all sites, and that is http://, not https://; when a Firefox user enters Ctrl+Enter. 'zeromus' noted above, "you chose the wrong default" which appears to be the case. Thank you.