Mozilla to Limit New Firefox Features to Secure Sites

https seems to be where they are headed

[ken_b]

I don't recall seeing this mentioned here.

Eventually, Mozilla wants to make new Firefox features available to encrypted websites only. Then, it wants to phase out access to certain existing browser features to non-secure sites.

Mozilla to Limit New Firefox Features to Secure Sites [pcmag.com]
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[lucy24]

the goal of this effort is to send a message to the Web developer community that they need to be secure

It's really, really hard to read this as anything other than "the goal of this effort is to require all webmasters to spend more money". I just don't get what's in it for Firefox.

[ken_b]

Well with the dwindling number of FF users that visit my site, I'm not sure it would matter that much.

But yeah, there seems to be a push for https, why I'd need that on an info - non-ecom site I'm not sure of. I guess I don't understand this stuff.

[JS_Harris]

One particular site of mine has a rate of 15% firefox users and it serves 100% static html with no database, no cookies and no javascript or processing whatsoever. It's fast. I don't see a reason to spend more money to make it secure when it is already as secure as it can be. In fact I'd rather take the site private via pay to view model before I try to make Mozilla happy by buying something the site doesn't need.

I know more about my site(s) than Mozilla does, I don't appreciate having my hand forced(or content stolen, ads removed etc).