Phoronix reports the Mozilla Security Engineering team is planning to make their browser useless for browsing much of the World Wide Web, by deprecating insecure HTTP.
Richard Barnes of Mozilla writes:
In order to encourage web developers to move from HTTP to HTTPS, I would like to propose establishing a deprecation plan for HTTP without security. Broadly speaking, this plan would entail limiting new features to secure contexts, followed by gradually removing legacy features from insecure contexts. Having an overall program for HTTP deprecation makes a clear statement to the web community that the time for plaintext is over -- it tells the world that the new web uses HTTPS, so if you want to use new things, you need to provide security.
See also this document outlining the initial plans.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 15 2015, @07:02AM
And by smart phones, I also mean e-readers, iPod's, tablets, and other device specific OSs that manage the web browser for you. Really, these are out of date web browsers, vulnerable to attacks, and no longer supported, so maybe they should be thrown out. But that seems wasteful and not everyone is going to do that.