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I am using Firefox Nightly 114.0a1, with "Don't enable HTTPS-Only Mode" enabled, and a visit to http://example.com works as expected (a GET from http).

Enable the web developer tools (Menu->More Tools->Web Developer Tools), visit the site again, and see if it is directly visiting the site or getting a redirect.

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The developer tools Network tab directly indicates the first connection as being HTTPS. No redirect shown there.

I additionally tested with my own site: http://masysma.net/31/web_main.xhtml. It is configured to not redirect to HTTPS except for the root node (http://masysma.net). It is not configured to behave any differently for user agents and hence the redirection (or no redirection) behaviour can also be checked by the commandline tools that print the course of the redirection (like curl, wget).

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