Google has announced that with the release of Chrome 90, scheduled for April 13, it will be transitioning to defaulting to HTTPS for opening websites when entering hostnames in the address bar. For example, when entering the host example.com, the site https://example.com will be opened by default, and if any issues arise during the process, it will fall back to http://example.com. Previously, this feature was activated for a small percentage of Chrome 89 users, and now the experiment has been deemed successful and ready for widespread implementation.
It is worth noting that despite significant efforts to promote HTTPS in browsers, when entering domain in the address bar without specifying a protocol, ‘http://’ is still used by default. To address this issue, Firefox 83 introduced an optional 'HTTPS Only' mode, in which all unencrypted requests are automatically redirected to their secure counterparts (changing ‘http://’ to ‘https://’). This replacement is not limited to the address bar and also works for websites explicitly opened via ‘http://’, as well as for loading resources within a page. If the redirect to https:// times out, the user is presented with an error page that includes a button to proceed with the request via ‘http://’.
Source: opennet.ru
