Seeking addon: Default HTTPS from address bar?

[Thrawn]

Hi, all.

If you type a domain name in the address bar, Firefox will add http:// for you. If you want HTTPS, you have to type it in full.
Has anyone heard of an addon that could reverse this behavior, so https:// gets added unless you specify HTTP?

It wouldn't be for everyone, of course, but it could be a really simple way to get most of the benefits of HTTPS Everywhere, HTTPS Finder, HSTS preloading, etc, without breaking sites or spending bandwidth on probing them.

I'd imagine it wouldn't be too complicated to build.

[Hecuba's daughter]

nvm

[barbaz]

You might be able to make such an extension by modifying URL Fixer to look for typed scheme, and if there isn't one, prepend "https://" to the typed URL?

[Hecuba's daughter]

nvm

[Thrawn]

You might be able to make such an extension by modifying URL Fixer to look for typed scheme, and if there isn't one, prepend "https://" to the typed URL?

I had high hopes for its out-of-the-box functionality, but unfortunately it only seems to read hostnames

[barbaz]

unfortunately it only seems to read hostnames

Nope
It actually reads everything, strips down the typed URL to a hostname, does its thing, then pieces the URL back together. It should be possible to make it mess with protocols instead.
(If the latest URL Fixer doesn't work like that, take a look at version 4.0.1)

[Thrawn]

Well, when I tried matching

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re:([^h].*)

replace with

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https://$1

it matched this site and changed the URL to http://https://forums.informaction.com

Yet www.example.com was correctly changed to https://www.example.com

And www.google.com.au becomes https://https://www.google.com.au

According to Wladimir, it's really only for hostnames

[barbaz]

Oh... sorry about the misunderstanding.
I don't know any add-on that will do what you want OOB. But I thought that editing URL Fixer's XPI might achieve that.
If you decide to try, you'll mainly want to look at typoFixer.js (and of course there's a lot you'll be able to just delete).

Also, it seems version 3.1 and older *do* correct entire URLs: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addo ... /versions/

[Thrawn]

So close:
URL Suffix

The only significant problem is that it doesn't work for URLs starting with 'www'. Otherwise it seems to do the job quite well.

[barbaz]

That extension sounds similar to
about:config -> browser.fixup.alternate.prefix
But I don't know if that pref affects protocols...
Its default value is 'www.', maybe that's why URL Suffix isn't fully achieving what you want?