TenFourFox changes http to https and generates a 404 error
I am trying to access the Google Life Magazine images archive. The URL is: http://images.google.com/hosted/life
However, TenFourFox insists on changing "http" to "https". This then generates a 404 error: "The requested URL /hosted/life was not found on this server."
Manually changing "https" to "http" in this instance has no effect; it's changed back to https by the browser. How do i stop this?
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Support Staff 1 Posted by Cameron Kaiser on 07 Jan, 2017 05:37 AM
See if this helps: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1027355
2 Posted by Michael McMurtr... on 07 Jan, 2017 06:03 AM
This did not help at all. I can access the site fine with Safari, but not TenFourFox. I would really prefer to use TenFourFox for many reasons.
Support Staff 3 Posted by Chris (chtrusch... on 07 Jan, 2017 08:27 AM
I can view the website just fine (http:) with TenFourFox. Therefore, there must be some entry in your browsing history for this site with https: that's autofilled when you try to access the site, or https://google.com falsely forcing https: on all subdomains even if these don't exist. The recommended procedure of "forgetting about this site" should work. Also make sure you're not using "security" add-ons that force https: for certain domains.
4 Posted by Michael McMurtr... on 07 Jan, 2017 11:12 PM
Tried the "forget about this site" procedure; didn't work. Not using any security add-ons, and there is nothing at the site that is aurofilled.
Support Staff 5 Posted by Cameron Kaiser on 07 Jan, 2017 11:27 PM
This is the point I'd try a profile reset, though I don't have an explanation for why that step didn't do the job. (Instructions at lower right, "How to reset your profile.")