If you select 'View Page Source' on about:startpage, you see that http:// is hard-coded. <form method="get" action="http://www.google.com/search"; name="search">
On about:home, press Ctrl+Shift+K then click on search, and you see it goes to Google over http://. I am using the build from Ubuntu repository (12.10 alpha). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/978444 Title: HTTPS is not used for Google searches Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser: Invalid Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: about:home and about:startpage does not use HTTPS which results in the communication being insecure and allows usage tracking and surveillance by a attacker as well as man-in-the-middle attacks. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/978444/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
