
“Once HTTPS-Only Mode is turned on, you can browse the web as you always do, with confidence that Firefox will upgrade web connections to be secure whenever possible, and keep you safe by default.”įrom a 30,000-foot perspective, the goal for browsers would be to eventually deprecate all HTTP connections in lieu of HTTPS ones. According to their official release notes:

They’ve created an optional mode that allows users to choose to make connections via the secure HTTPS protocol only (whenever possible). In a nutshell, HTTPS-Only mode is a new security feature that Firefox rolled out yesterday as part of their Nov.

A screenshot of the Firefox version 83 browser info screen
