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Why are tabs now opening with https prefixes?

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guigs replied 12 years ago
iarons
iarons

Before today's update, my tabs were opening with the http:// prefix -- now several are opening with https:// -- why?

Before today's update, my tabs were opening with the http:// prefix -- now several are opening with https:// -- why?

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guigs
guigs

Hi iarons, Thank you for your question, can you provide an example site please?

It could be the autofill [turn off urlbar.autofill, ] or https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/que.../933563#answer-356690 or the Google search with will gor to the https site over the http for encryption.