778552 - about:home and about:start searches Google over http

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Eldmannen]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/15.0
Build ID: 20120726125915

Steps to reproduce:

Searched from about:home and about:startpage


Actual results:

Got sent to Google over insecure HTTP.


Expected results:

Been sent to Google over secure HTTPS.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

I tested using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1 and it seems to use https as expected (confirmed by wireshark).

What's make you believe that http is used ?
Is that a Mozilla.org build or do you got the binary build from somewhere else ?

Comment 2

[Eldmannen]

If you select 'View Page Source' on about:startpage, you see that http:// is hard-coded.
<form method="get" action="http://www.google.com/search" name="search">

On about:home, press Ctrl+Shift+K then click on search, and you see it goes to Google over http://.

I am using the build from Ubuntu repository (12.10 alpha).

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

from the build in comment#1 and a search from about:home
[19:58:19.760] GET https://www.google.com/search?q=test&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&source=hp&channel=np [HTTP/1.1 302 Found 655ms]

Please try a build from mozilla instead of the Ubuntu one. It's possible that Ubuntu is using a different search and you probably have to report this issue to Ubuntu

Comment 4

[Eldmannen]

Okay, I just tested with Nightly trunk build.
firefox-17.0a1.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 | 29-Jul-2012 04:30 | 29M

about:startpage won't work because:
[20:34:28.215] SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character @ chrome://browser/content/abouthome/aboutHome.js:145

about:home seem to actually use HTTPS as it should.
[20:40:05.930] SyntaxError: syntax error @ about:home:20
Throws that but still works though.

Comment 5

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1009961 suggests that they are using their own about pages

There is no about:startpage in my Firefox14.0.1 windows build.
The current startpage is about:newtab

Is Ubuntu still adding their own extension that adds their changes ?
Anyway, please report this to ubuntu as it seems that your issue is caused by Ubuntu specific changes.

Comment 6

[Eldmannen]

Firefox on Ubuntu comes with an extension called 'Ubuntu Firefox Modifications' aka 'ubufox'.

http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=xul-ext-ubufox&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all