Closed Bug 320569 Opened 19 years ago Closed 2 years ago

You should be able to change the default protocol

Categories

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, enhancement)

enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1704453

People

(Reporter: matthew-martin, Unassigned)

References

()

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-CA; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-CA; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

If you type a url in the location bar such as www.google.ca there should be an option in about:config so you can set it to use https://www.google.ca/ instead of http://www.google.ca/

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. type www.google.ca
2. goes to http://www.google.ca/
3.

Actual Results:  
type http://www.google.ca
goes to http://www.google.ca/

Expected Results:  
type http://www.google.ca
goes to https://www.google.ca/
Assignee: nobody → adamlock
Component: Location Bar and Autocomplete → Embedding: Docshell
Product: Firefox → Core
QA Contact: location.bar → adamlock
Version: unspecified → Trunk
Just make a bookmark for https://www.google.ca/
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Status: VERIFIED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: WONTFIX → ---
Assignee: adamlock → nobody
QA Contact: adamlock → docshell
An extension that does this for particular sites: HTTPS-Everywhere https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
There was also an extension called "HTTPS Finder" that would check if the site you go to has an HTTPS version, and redirect to it.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago2 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.