Open Bug 1675744 Opened 4 years ago Updated 1 year ago

Address bar popup menu still suggests http:// in HTTPS-only mode

Categories

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect, P3)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Address Bar
Platform:
Desktop
Linux
Type:
defect

Tracking

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Tracking Flags:
Tracking Status
firefox83 --- affected
firefox84 --- affected

People

(Reporter: jumptmp+8coxe, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Enable HTTPS-only mode
  2. Type example.com in address bar

Actual results:

Two hint were displayed.
One is to search "example.com" in search engine.
Another one is to go to "http://example.com"

Expected results:

Second hint should be "https://example.com"

Component: Untriaged → Address Bar

Hi,

Thanks for the details. I was able to reproduce the bug on Ubuntu 18 on the following versions:

83.0b10 (64-bit) (Argentinian locale) and Nightly 84.0a1 (2020-11-10) (64-Bit) (German and EN-US locale).

Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
status-firefox83: --- → affected
status-firefox84: --- → affected
Ever confirmed: true
OS: Unspecified → Linux
Hardware: Unspecified → Desktop
Version: 78 Branch → Trunk

there's no way for the urlbar to know if the secure version exist, on the other side https-only-mode is under development and can be tested, see bug 1613063.

Severity: -- → S3
Depends on: 1628831
Priority: -- → P3

Showing "https" for new suggestions should be okay. Shouldn't be done with suggestions from the history. What if one wants to copy a previously visited URL instead of revisiting? The result will be misleading if the site doesn't support HTTPS.

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