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		livre on March 23, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Chrome’s address bar will use https:// by default In this case Firefox was first with a slightly different implementation (a warning instead of directly falling back to http). https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2020/11/17/firefox-83-intr... I think the idea originally came from the extension HTTPS Everywhere and its EASE mode back in 2018. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/how-https-everywhere-k...

jefftk on March 23, 2021 | [–]

> a slightly different implementation

That is an option you can enable, while this post is about changing the default.

marcosdumay on March 23, 2021 | [–]

Your FF link is about a different functionality. FF has used https by default, with fallback into http for addresses you write for a really long time.

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