Firefox 59 (Quantum) - HTTP Connection is Not Secure

After release Quantum, Firefox is slowly but surely recovering, the lost land in front of Google Chrome and other Internet browser applications that users have migrated in recent years. About Firefox Quantum we can only say that it is a perfect browser at the moment, which offers a superior loading speed compared to any other browser, stability and good process management, both on Windows and the macOS.

Firefox Quantum promises to be a browser of the future that seeks to align both users and website owners with the new web standards. One of the new standards requires websites to ensure the protection of users' private data by using connections. HTTPS instead of the old HTTP protocol. Broadly, HTTPS ensures the encryption of data on the internet, sent by users to the website. In this way the user is protected against espionage (spyware) and the manipulation of personal data by malicious third parties. It is a "must have" for Online Stores who request personal data or even credit or debit card data to make payments.

From January 2017 until the beginning of December, there was a increase with 20% of websites that have aligned with the new standards, and have switched to secure connection HTTPS. In our opinion, this is primarily due to the company Google which frequently requires webmasters to use connections HTTPS for your own pages.
In principle, a certificate SSL required for a connection HTTPS it can be purchased for a fee, but Google supports the project Let's Encrypt, (mark a The Linux Foundation) which can provide free certificates SSL.

Starting with 2018 most internet browsers will mark the sites Not-HTTPS as unsafe, thus warning visitors that the data they will send to the site is not secure. And today, Google Chrome and other browsers mark as unsafe web pages that do notHTTPS containing fields for e-mail, passwords or other sensitive data.

Of course, we cannot say that a website is secure HTTPS, is also 100% safe. In an age of technology in which cyber attacks take place every second, HTTPS it is just a small pillar against them.

Once the final version of a Firefox 59 (Quantum) for the general public, absolutely all HTTP webpages will be marked as insecure. It is very possible that this upgrade will also appear in Chrome in the near future.

The impact on non-HTTPS it will be reflected in a lower number of visitors and reluctance in ordering online products by users. Valid for online stores.

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