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Exactly this. In Firefox, the suggested replacement is to use the force https setting, but that is for the whole browser instance instead of the domain of the
by philsnow 4y ago
Exactly this. In Firefox, the suggested replacement is to use the force https setting, but that is for the whole browser instance instead of the domain of the current tab. If I disable force https to make some site work, I have to remember to turn it back on when I'm done, and if I'm going back and forth between sites on different tabs/windows where some support https and some don't, it's a huge pain.
I don't even know how disabling it affects already-loaded pages in other tabs. If each page/tab caches the setting on page load and still respects it when it gets changed, maybe that's fine... but if js-driven background requests on all my other tabs suddenly don't force https when I disable the setting to visit paulgraham.com, then that's not a good replacement for https everywhere.