Firefox Nightly starts marking login-forms in HTTP as insecure

Oct 26th 2015

authentication best practices browser https security

If you have a form on your website where one of the fields is of the `type="password"`, the page will now be marked as insecure in your browser if it is served over a plain HTTP connection.

https://ma.ttias.be/firefox-nightly-starts-marking-login-forms-in-http-as-insecure/

I guess this behaviour will become the default in all major browsers sooner than later.

← Stop forcing your arbitrary password rules on me

All the little things →

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