Firefox trying HTTPS first

[chef]

Thanks for this. I've was googling myself but never found anything apart from the HTTPS Everywhere add-on that Cojak mentioned (I don't have that installed, btw)

I also dont have HTTPS Everywhere installed and yet it still does it, dontreally care though it's just client co laptop that they get back shortly anyway

[kingcook]

Been using Google Chrome for a few days. It's a nice little browser. Only annoying thing is that it doesn't give me the option to open a file instead of saving it. (Handy for when i want to view some PDF on some website).

[kingcook]

Ok after a very quick look at this, this website seems to have a workaround but no real explanation

Thanks for this. I've was googling myself but never found anything apart from the HTTPS Everywhere add-on that Cojak mentioned (I don't have that installed, btw)

[cojak]

It's called HTTPS Everywhere [Firefox] HTTPS Everywhere automatically encrypts the web by forcing websites to use HTTPS | dotTech

https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere

[chef]

Ok after a very quick look at this, this website seems to have a workaround but no real explanation

[chef]

I've had this recently too but put it down to the fact I was using client co laptop via VPN and that they had been messing around with proxy redirects. It does it for Firefox but not in IE, exactly as you say redirects to https, no extensions other than Xmarks are on Firefox.

[mudskipper]

Ok, this is freaking me out now!!

Tried Travelodge's URL in both Firefox and Chrome.

Chrome is ok (stays on HTTP)
Firefox redirects (to HTTPs)

Tried typing it all manually with the http:// at the beginning aswell (ignoring the auto complete)

I don't have any extension installed that would do this.

What extensions do you have?
It could be an over zealous 'safe browsing' thing - anti-virus plug in or such like.

[kingcook]

Ok, this is freaking me out now!!

Tried Travelodge's URL in both Firefox and Chrome.

Chrome is ok (stays on HTTP)
Firefox redirects (to HTTPs)

Tried typing it all manually with the http:// at the beginning aswell (ignoring the auto complete)

I don't have any extension installed that would do this.

[cojak]

FF 15 seems to be pretty stable.

[SueEllen]

I've dropped Chrome and have gone back to FF, I haven't noticed any problems with it.

FF 13.x and 14.x crashed a lot.

[cojak]

I've dropped Chrome and have gone back to FF, I haven't noticed any problems with it.

[petergriffin]

Maybe you have mistyped the address, google seach picked it up and tried https first.

Btw FF has become a joke lately.

[mudskipper]

Is it all sites?

I know google goes to https if you're signed in.

[NickFitz]

Just updated FF to 15.0.1 and tried a domain I'd never visited before while hooked up to an HTTP debugger. Could not reproduce. Might it be some extension you have installed?

[kingcook]

I've noticed recently that whenever I type a URL into Firefox's address bar, it's trying https:// first and using that if it works. Otherwise, it reverts to plain ol' http://

This happens even if I type http://....

Using v15.0.1 on Windows 7