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: 2) by GungnirSniper on Wednesday April 15 2015, @06:39PM
Mozilla's continued market share decline and braindead copycatting of Chrome shows that the product managers over there are a big part of the problem. It's inexplicable that new major versions still break extensions when there are new major versions on a regular basis. They could use some of Ballmer's advice: Developers, developers, developers!
Fortunately Pale Moon is a more traditional variant that takes the security patches without the Chrome-ified interface, and it works with all the extensions I've tried. I would assume they would not include this "security" change.
Does it really matter if my ISP knows I'm reading the Daily Mail and which stories? They're going to see DNS lookups and traffic to the Daily Mail's servers even if it is encrypted.
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