Mozilla Restricts All New Firefox Features To HTTPS Only (bleepingcomputer.com)

An anonymous reader shares a report: In a groundbreaking statement earlier this week, Mozilla announced that all web-based features that will ship with Firefox in the future must be served on over a secure HTTPS connection (a "secure context"). "Effective immediately, all new features that are web-exposed are to be restricted to secure contexts," said Anne van Kesteren, a Mozilla engineer and author of several open web standards. This means that if Firefox will add support for a new standard/feature starting tomorrow, if that standard/feature carries out communications between the browser and an external server, those communications must be carried out via HTTPS or the standard/feature will not work in Firefox. The decision does not affect already existing standards/features, but Mozilla hopes all Firefox features "will be considered on a case-by-case basis," and will slowly move to secure contexts (HTTPS) exclusively in the future.

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Loyal Firefox user for over a decade now.

[fishscene]

...and this might be the one thing that gets me off the Firefox bandwagon as it is an incredibly backwards move. TONS of stuff does NOT need https and does not need the overhead HTTPS incurs both in processing time and certificate management. Also, do I really need HTTPS for stuff on my trusted LAN? No? So now I have to jump through hoops to enable developer mode? Just... what are they thinking? What is the recommended fork of Firefox these days? Pale Moon?