typing in url for my company website sends it to https index page in Firefox, but not IE or Chrome, and the behavoir is not wanted
After upgrading Firefox to version 14.0.1 i noticed when i typed in my company's website address that firefox went to the https:// version of the site when it never did that before.
Example, if you type in amazon.com in the URL bar, you briefly see that firefox turns the url to https://www.amazon.com before being auto directed to the normal www.amazon.com site.
My website did not have a secure index page and people were getting a server generated message until I found this issue out.
Is there a setting in Firefox to prevent the URL bar from selecting a secure connection first? This behavior does not occur in the most recent versions of I.E. or Chrome browsers on a desktop.
Any help would be greatly apprecaited
Chosen solution
by Aurora025Following solution worked for me. Just put following in the .htaccess file on your server and put your domain name instead of domain example below:
- RewriteEngine On
- RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
- RewriteRule ^$ http://www.example.com/ [R=301,L]
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Here's what I see with the amazon.com example.
As I start typing amazon.com, Firefox recognizes and autofills amazon.com/ (it has a trailing slash). If I press Enter, it goes to https://www.amazon.com/ and then is redirected to http://www.amazon.com/.
If before pressing Enter I delete the trailing slash, it goes straight to http://www.amazon.com/.
Or if I arrow down to or click on a URL from history, then it goes to that URL.
I never get to https on worldmusic.org; I suspect that is because that URL doesn't exist in my browsing history.
So it seems the new autofill feature might have a preference for https connections when there are both http and https matches. I don't think there is a way to change that aspect of its behavior, so you might prefer to disable it completely.
(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter. Click the button promising to be careful.
(2) In the filter box, type or paste autofill and pause while the list is filtered
(3) Double-click browser.urlbar.autoFill to toggle it from true to false.
I noticed someone has filed a bug about this: Bug 769994 – Inline autocomplete selects HTTPS domain against HTTP domain by default. If you register on Bugzilla, you can add a vote to fix it if you like. However, please do not post "me too"-type comments in bugs, since that can discourage developers from staying on the cc list and solving it.
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Sites Affected
http://www.WorldMusic.org
Installed Plug-ins
- Shockwave Flash 11.3 r300
- Pando Web Plugin
- The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide variety of multimedia content in Web pages. For more information, visit the QuickTime Web site.
- Next Generation Java Plug-in 1.6.0_32 for Mozilla browsers
- NPRuntime Script Plug-in Library for Java(TM) Deploy
- Adobe Shockwave for Director Netscape plug-in, version 11.6.5.635
- iTunes Detector Plug-in
- 4.1.10329.0
- Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape "9.5.1"
- QUAKE LIVE
- LogMeIn, Inc. Remote Access Components
- Unity Player 3.1.0f4
- The plug-in allows you to open and edit files using Microsoft Office applications
- Office Authorization plug-in for NPAPI browsers
Application
- User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1
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Hi pfeely, this --
When I specify "http" - and the page is redirected to "https" - it makes it very difficult to test the page.
-- shouldn't happen. In other words, if you specify the full URL yourself, Firefox should use that URL. But if you accept the autofill suggestion based on partial input, then https may be used contrary to your expectations.
Unless there's something new going on, autofill is the cause of this problem. If you have a scenario where an item from the autocomplete drop-down, or a bookmark, or a link is having its protocol switched, that probably would be a new bug. (New to me, at least.)
The mod rewrite option is not a solution when some sections of the site are supposed to work over ssl, but others are not.
Its also a bit extreme to do a mod rewrite for a glitch/bug in one browser
Hi pfeely, here on the support side, it's mostly about workarounds. Have you voted for the bug to be fixed? (You need to create a Bugzilla account in order to vote.) 769994 – Inline autocomplete selects HTTPS domain against HTTP domain by default
I used to like firefox but now I have to say it is garbage browser now. The above solution also works fine in all other browsers except firefox but other browsers did not have any issue to the posted solution is useless.
In my scenario my SSL is for http and firefox forcing https://www.mydomain.com
I modified this to
RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on RewriteRule ^$ http://mydomain.com/ [R=301,L]
Am I missing anything? Confused how it fixed others issue?
Looks like I have to buy another SSL to fix this annoying firefox bug?
Note that this only happens if auto fill in the location bar is enabled in Firefox (browser.urlbar.autoFill and browser.urlbar.autoFill.typed are true) and you have visited pages on that server in the past via a secure HTTPS connection.
I know but we run an eCommerce store with thousands of old customers and if they see this problem some leave, some get angry thinking it is our fault where it is actually firefox bug. Telling them to turn off url autocomplete is not always an option.