I can confirm that it is specific to Ubuntu. Tested it over IRC with other Linux distros and the builds from Mozilla's website, but they all defaulted to HTTPS. Only the builds from the Mozilla Team PPAs refused to default to HTTPS.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/978444 Title: HTTPS is not used for Google searches Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser: Invalid Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “ubufox” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: about:home and about:startpage does not use HTTPS which results in the communication being insecure and allows usage tracking and surveillance by a attacker as well as man-in-the-middle attacks. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/978444/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
