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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, @12:25PM
Here's the problem with that:
It isn't actually usable yet. And do you know what that means? It's fucking useless!
Keep in mind that Mozilla is involved. This project could very well end up like other projects of theirs, like Rust and Electrolysis, which just drag on and on and on. The stated Rust 1.0 release date has already been missed and adjusted multiple times. Electrolysis has been in the works for years with little to show. Firefox OS is still total crap, after many years and much effort. I just don't have much faith in Mozilla these days, and their ability to execute properly.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 15 2015, @01:41PM
It isn't actually usable yet. And do you know what that means? It's fucking useless!
You know what, Mozilla hasn't turned off http support yet either. Gee ... timing is everything.