Starting with Mozilla Firefox 52, the browser shows a security warning when you are logging in to a non-https web site: This Connection Is Not Secure. Logins Entered Here Could Be Compromised. This is a very annoying message, and here is how you can disable this feature.
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In Firefox 52, when opening a page with a password prompt using the plain HTTP protocol, the browser shows this special warning because HTTPS is more secure and encrypted whereas anyone trying to intercept your HTTP traffic can do so quite easily. Here is how the message looks:
Besides this warning message, it disables the browser's form auto-filling feature. If you have to work with many sites which use only the HTTP protocol, this can be extremely annoying. You might want to disable the warning message in this case.
To disable insecure login prompt in Firefox, you need to set the option, security.insecure_field_warning.contextual.enabled to false. Here is how.
- Open a new tab in Firefox and enter the following text in the address bar:
about:config
Confirm that you will be careful if a warning message appears for you.
- Enter the following text in the filter box:
security.insecure_field_warning.contextual.enabled
- The option security.insecure_field_warning.contextual.enabled will appear in the list. Set it to false by double clicking it or by right clicking it and choosing Toggle.
This will disable the annoying security warning in Firefox. Now you need to enable the browser's form auto-filling feature. - In about:config, type signon.autofillForms.http in the filter box.
- The option signon.autofillForms.http will appear in the list. Set it to true by double clicking it or by right clicking it and choosing Toggle.
These steps will restore the behavior of the previous versions of the browser.
Firefox 52 was released in March 2017. Besides this HTTP login warning message, the browser introduced a number of unpopular changes. One of them was disabling the support for classic NPAPI plugins. In Firefox 52, the only NPAPI plugin which remains working out-of-the-box is Adobe Flash. Plugins like Silverlight, Java, Unity (a framework for games) and Linux's Gnome Shell plugin have stopped working.
Mozilla has made an exception only for Adobe Flash. Plenty of web sites still rely on Adobe's Flash Player technology, so they decided to keep it. If these web sites stop working in Firefox, this can cause Firefox users to switch to another browser.
Just like the mentioned warning message, you can also restore NPAPI plugin support using about:config. However, it will be removed completely once Firefox 53 is released.
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Firefox is a very annoying browser. I highly recommend using Chrome instead.
Except Chrome is buggy software. Too many vulnerabilities. More CVEs than any other software out there.
hmmm…. still doesn’t autofill like previous versions.
It allows me here. Exactly like in the previous versions.
Did you change both options as described?
I changed them both (just checked again). Will not autofill. If I click in username then click a second time, it gives me a list and I can select it… but I have to type in the password (after looking it up in the saved logins).
Derp! I forgot to recheck the box for “Remember logins for sites”
Seems like it used to work that way… so it wouldn’t keep asking to save sites but would fill ones already saved.
Anyway, thanks.