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Firefox has started to do this recently "Note that is warning in the url bar is only in Firefox Nightly and Firefox Developer Edition. This has not been relea
by dsp1234 10y ago
Firefox has started to do this recently
"Note that is warning in the url bar is only in Firefox Nightly and Firefox Developer Edition. This has not been released to Firefox Beta and Firefox Release."[0]
So this is not a security feature that most end users can rely on, yet.
[0] - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Insecure_password https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Insecu...
- blacksmith_tb 10y agoLooks like that url lost its final char [1] I use DE, so I have been seeing these for a little while, but I think even in the stable channel you can toggle the security.insecure_password.ui.enabled param to true in about:config. 1: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Insecure_passwords https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Insecu...
- vaidik 10y agoWell it will soon land in stable as well I am sure. But its amazing to see major browsers moving in this direction and educating users about security.
- theandrewbailey 10y agoFirefox Release channel has been logging console errors for this for at least two years. "Password fields present on an insecure (http:// http://) page. This is a security risk that allows user login credentials to be stolen."