The change is the browser skipping a step ahead and assuming HTTPS first, since that’s what most sites use now anyway, saving you from making, and waiting for, an unnecessary HTTP request. The browser makes that third quest and finally gets here. The browser requests that, but the site responds with a 301 redirect to. The site wants you to use HTTPS instead, so it sends back a 307 redirect response pointing to. First, the browser tries, assuming you want HTTP 99.99% of the time. Open the browser’s dev tools and watch what happens if you type in and hit enter. Just to indicate that the “guiding hand” of modern browsers, pushing a pro-user to a location that wasn’t specified, isn’t appreciated.Īctually, it doesn’t happen like that already. Been online since 1996, been building/repairing computers even before that, been working in IT all that time too.
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But in my case that percentage lies around 20%. It wouldn’t be so bad if their guess was correct about 80% of the time. Sure, I have turned off those features, using the about:config pages, but it appears those changes are not really respected by browsers. Not where Chrome/FireFox/Opera thinks I should go. Wish there was a good way to turn all those “helpful” functions off in browsers, if I type in where I want to visit, that is exactly where I want to visit.
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That is already pretty infuriating, if I’m honest. You more often than not get https put automatically in front. (where xxx is a number between 1 and 254) As if this does not happen already? In any (reasonable) up-to-date browser? Even if you type: