Browsing will be safer with Edge 92: Microsoft will implement the HTTPS protocol for all pages that allow it
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Microsoft Edge continues to prepare improvements that will arrive in future versions of Edge and has now announced that starting with Edge 92 they will introduce the ability for the browser to automatically redirect users to a secure HTTPS connection when visiting a web page that uses the HTTP protocol.
The improvement is intended to be implemented with the general version of Edge in number 92, a build that is due to be released around the month of July and that already It can be tested on the Canary Channel that can be downloaded from this link.
Safer browsing
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Instead, when a web page uses the HTTPS protocol, your computer is connected to a page that is speaking to you in a coded language , invader-proof and more secure." And that&39;s what the new option wants to prevent that will allow Edge users to switch from HTTP to HTTPS on websites that they can already support the more secure protocol. In addition, users will also be able to configure the browser to update all connections to HTTPS as the default Internet communication protocol." With the use of the HTTP protocol, connections are not encrypted and an attacker could get hold of the data we send while browsing, among which passwords, banking information and any other confidential information may appear. This way protects users when browsing against man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks that can make an attacker access the data we are exchanging when we browse the web through unencrypted HTTP connections. This change is already active in Chrome (which, like Edge, is based on Chromium) starting with version 90, a browser that it already uses HTTPS by default when accessing any web page that has this possibility. Something similar occurs with Firefox 83, where Mozilla also added an HTTPS-only mode. Via | Bleeping Computer Image | Wikipedia
