How will this affect the forum
Thu, 10/30/2025 - 7:57pm
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Interesting content at https://chromeunboxed.com/google-is-making-https-the-default.... It sounds as if roughly in a year Chrome will not (by a default setting) open a website that isn’t HTTPS
SSL certificate and redirects
I'm likely oversimplifying things here, but in short a SSL certificate needs to be generated and all http links redirected to https on the back end. That said, it's LONG OVERDUE for this site: it should have been on https a decade ago.
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Other browsers may continue
Other browsers may continue to be compatible I would guess.
The site already has a
The site already has a certificate which is used for the login page only. There's likely reasons why it's only used there. Perhaps a limitation of the forum software?
Bummer
I use so many websites that use HTTP protocol and cutting it off will be essentially cutting off a limb of the internet...
I haven't touched chrome in
I haven't touched chrome in ages. Browsers in order of preference
1) Firefox
2) Vivaldi (chromium based)
3) Librewolf (mozilla based)
4) Brave (chromium based).
I've switched to a laptop as a daily pc most days. Firefox and thunderbird profiles live on the nas. The laptop is set to point to the network share for the profile folder. Browser works great, thunderbird a bit slow starting up.
Too much telemetry with chrome. Won't touch it.
Yeah, I use primarily
Yeah, I use primarily Firefox (99%). I have used Brave, Chrome is 1st and in 2nd place is Edge for data collection. Chrome sends to google servers every site you ever visited and every search you have ever done and is kept forever. No thanks.