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For example, I type superuser.com in the browser bar of Firefox, but it automatically goes to the HTTP site. I want the HTTPS site by default.

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    https://superuser.com works for me.
    – DavidPostill ♦
    Commented Jul 16, 2016 at 15:38
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    @ysap , also by using HTTPS everywhere you help others - including future you. Maybe now you don't have any reason (that you know of) to keep the connection encrypted, but maybe in the future you will have one; by using HTTPS even when "not needed", you provide plausible deniability. In the same vein, if everyone uses HTTPS everywhere, then you can use HTTPS without automatically singling yourself out. Finally, the more websites use HTTPS, the more pressure on non-HTTPS sites to update.
    – hmijail
    Commented Jul 17, 2016 at 13:32

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Another alternative is HTTPS Everywhere. It's available for Firefox, Chrome and Safari.

Since it is developed from the collaboration between EFF and the TOR project, I tend to believe this plugin more.

It's also open source and available under GPLv3 license.

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    Unfortunately, there is a bug which breaks the web socket related live updates on SE last I checked and reported it.
    – Alexander O'Mara
    Commented Jul 17, 2016 at 6:54
  • Where is the download for safari with site only mentions chrome and FF?
    – 2426021684
    Commented Jul 17, 2016 at 23:11
  • @2426021684 Checkout the first link in my answer. You will find the links there.
    – Sibi
    Commented Jul 18, 2016 at 10:39
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    Please note that HTTPS Everywhere has a slightly misleading name. It's rule-based, so you need manually "whitelist" a website to be forced to go for HTTPS instead of HTTP if they're not pre-configured with the addon. It should be named "HTTPS Everywhere Configured In the Ruleset".
    – Adi
    Commented Jul 18, 2016 at 15:06
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Firefox addon "HTTPS by default" works: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/https-by-default/?src=ss

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  • If my memory serves me right, this is the way to go for the time being. I do remember reading somewhere about various privacy oriented firefox derivatives coming with this addon, such as the tor brovser.
    – Jarmund
    Commented Jul 16, 2016 at 16:01
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    Nice. HTTPS Everywhere doesn't work with SE at least.
    – DavidPostill ♦
    Commented Jul 16, 2016 at 16:23
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    @DavidPostill HTTPS Everywhere works just fine with SE, but you might need to turn on the "Stack Exchange (partial)" rule set manually.
    – user
    Commented Jul 16, 2016 at 20:21
  • While you're at it maybe post something for Chrome too?
    – user541686
    Commented Jul 16, 2016 at 21:29
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    @DavidPostill That's because SE hates HTTPS on Meta ;) which should hopefully be fixed soon since CF is gone away
    – cat
    Commented Jul 17, 2016 at 2:57
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Well, you can't do this automatically, there is no option in Firefox, like browser.urlbar.*, for this.

So you either use one of the browser extensions mentioned in the other answers here, or as I'd suggest (avoiding usage of browser extensions you don't really need), just make sure that you bookmark https://superuser.com instead of http://superuser.com.

Now you can just type superuser.. in the browser bar and find the right link.

You can also restrict the suggestions in the url bar by using specific characters, for example, using * somtehing (Asterisk) only finds matches in your bookmarks.

More examples: here

One more thing about HTTPS Everywhere: In addition to the issue with requiring predefined rules (as mentioned here in this comment), there is (or was, maybe they adressed this in the meantime) also the problem that HTTPS Everywhere saves the user preferences into the prefs.js inside your Firefox profile directory.
So you end up with a lot of user_pref("extensions.https_everywhere.SITE, BOOL); lines in your prefs.js, maybe even thousands of entries that increase the size of this file and slows down load time. Not to mention possible privacy issues.

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