Microsoft Edge Automatically using HTTPS option for All the Domains!

Microsoft Edge browser will start redirecting the users to the secured HTTPS connection in case the users are requesting the HTTP protocol. This new updated version of the browser will switching the users from HTTP to HTTPS which are more secured than others. Multiple users will update their browser for more secured connections and moving from HTTPS as the best and default communication protocol for the domains associated.

Meanwhile, Microsoft said that beginning with Microsoft Edge version 92, now the users have the option to update their communication protocol and moving towards the more secured one.

Microsoft Edge Automatically using HTTPS option for All the Domains!

Now the question may strike your mind how these are updates will help the users and how they enhance their security experience.

Update Block MITM Attack and Web Traffic

These changes will secure the users from multiple attacks that deal with web traffic or mam-in-the-middle attack that are capable of snooping the data over the unsecured communication protocol. The data sent over the HTTP is not secured and multiple attacks and programs are executing that easily monitor and steal the information transmitted over HTTP that also deals with user confidential data which includes passwords, credit card info, and other personal information.

However, the experts advised you to choose HTTPS while accessing the Internet, it helps you to secure your data and transmitted it over the secured and encrypted form between the sites that you are viewing over the browser.

HTTPS also takes care of the hackers who are snooping the website traffic and will not be able to steal or exchange any data from the sites present on the Internet without permission.

What Other Browsers are Doing?

This is very great news where the web browsers are defending the users from hackers and intercepting the unauthorized traffic by enhancing it and making it easier to access the data over HTTPS.

Although, Microsoft released an update for version 90 this month, and other web browsers that include Google Chore also uses the HTTPS as default for all the URLs that were entered and typed by the users in the address bar.

Mozilla Firefox also released Firefox 83, which also added HTTPS mode while accessing the data and browsing the websites by automatically rewriting the URL that uses HTTPS protocol.

The users who are not using the Microsoft Edge or not updating their browsers will also access or download the HTTPS for all the sites by using the HTTPS extensions available on multiple stores.

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