707525 - Enforce secure connection for search bar searches

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 633773

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[Ilhan Yumer]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0
Build ID: 20111104165243

Steps to reproduce:

I have typed at the search bar for Google and I have clicked the search.


Actual results:

It didn't use the secure connection to communicate with Google.


Expected results:

Since Google has a secure connection (SSL, ie https) it should have use the secure connection.

Comment 2

[Thomas Ahlblom]

While waiting for the duplicate to get resolved you may install Google SSL manually:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-ssl-search/

This, and other SSL search engines, can also be found by clicking the arrow down icon in the search bar and then select "Manage Search Engines... / Get more search engines..."

You man also consider modifying your about:config settings and set:
keyword.URL = https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=

This will make searches in the URL bar encrypted as well.