Security News > 2020 > March > Firefox 76 will have option to enforce HTTPS-only connections
Converting websites from HTTP to HTTPS over the last decade must count as one of the most successful quiet security upgrades ever to affect web browsing.
There are some HTTPS security caveats worth mentioning, but before getting to them we'll start with the news that that Mozilla's Firefox will, from May's version 76, offer the option to browse in an HTTPS-only mode.
Firefox 76's answer is to attempt to upgrade mixed content to HTTPS or simply block them from loading at all.
As a recent Naked Security article explained, HTTPS is also very popular with crooks running fake websites.
The minor irony in Mozilla's enthusiasm for HTTPS security is that after announcing earlier this month that Firefox 74 had finally abandoned support for the TLS 1.0 and 1.1, older versions of the protocol which underpins HTTPS, the company later decided to reinstate support.