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Comment by mikegerwitz | Hacker News Reader

This is a good, important feature.

Do you know what the plans are for enabling this in all editions of Firefox?

The old plan was to enable it in Fx 44 (the one that was just released). But a couple of bugs caused a delay and it was pushed back. It was just enabled in nightly/dev builds [0], so Fx 46 will probably have it.

[0]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1221206#c10

Fx 46 is scheduled to be released on the 19th of April FYI https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar

AFAIK and contrary to what others have said, there's no plan to enable this in a release version of Firefox anytime soon. There are too many affected sites and most average users would probably just start ignoring the crossed out lock or get scared and use some other browser.

Hmm I was under the impression that since it's currently in Aurora it's likely to be in the end release? Do you have a source on this?

It's in dev edition / aurora because those aren't "release" builds, and the security.insecure_password.ui.enabled default value depends on a RELEASE_BUILD ifdef. So no, it won't automatically be enabled when current aurora moves to beta.

I was under the impression that it worked like an Alpha and the intention is for features in it to eventually end up in stable unless critical problems are found in them?

This is usually true but not in this case. Or if you want to put it this way, the anticipated critical problem is that this UI would confuse average end users and thus we won't enable it for them.

Interesting, is there any public discussion on this? I didn't find anything like it when I was researching the blog post.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1188121 appears to be the main tracking bug for this feature. It says "... for developers" in its summary.

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