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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Firefox will upgrade page loads to HTTPS and gracefully fall back to HTTP if that does not succeed. This behavior is known as HTTPS-First.

Wasn't this already the case? For a while?! I don't know whether this means HTTPS sites will load more reliably, or HTTP sites will.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Hmm, you might be right. But I've also seen some instance where it asks me to confirm if I wanna open the HTTP site