1875722 - Default search bar and link behavior is defaulting to HTTP

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1812192

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[cjacobs]

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/119.0

Steps to reproduce:

After a fresh install of Firefox, start the browser. On the new tab screen, start entering an address in the unified search/address bar such as:
"nfl.org"
WIthout the leading https:// and www specified, it seems the "Visit" option (not from Suggestions or History yet) the default is to visit the website as "http://".

I'm unsure how deep into the logic of links this may go, if there are other vector opportunities from JS/HTML to redirect a browser and have it default to http. This may lead to timeouts due to server not redirecting.

Actual results:

http is being defaulted to, when website designers and users would expect default to be https from address bar.

Expected results:

https should always be the default with http as a fallback. The standard should be to default to https and only if explicitly written should http be used. This seems to be resolved with HTTPS-Only mode, however, this still feels like poor form.

Comment 1

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

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Address Bar' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Monica Chiorean]

Issue reproduces as described on Win10x64 using Firefox build 121.0. Chrome has the same behavior, it searches for http://nfl.org instead of https://nfl.org. Waiting for engineering input on this.

Drew, can you please mention whether this is expected or not. Thank you so much.

Comment 3

[James Teow [:jteow]]

This is a work in progress and it has been fixed in Nightly but the feature is not ready for Release yet but will be ready soon.