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HTTP warning now has 5s delay before "Continue to HTTP Site" is clickable (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This has started happening a while ago (previously there was not perceptible delay) and luckily I don't have to visit HTTP sites very often but it is annoying and I would like to get rid of it.

I know HTTP is bad TYVM. I only use this HTTPS-only mode to forcibly upgrade to HTTPS whenever possible and be notified if it doesn't work.

Does anyone know why this is happening and how to disable it?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Does security.dialog_enable_delay work on that?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It does not. It's also 5s, not 1s, so that couldn't have been it.

Btw, Googling that option, I found out that there's a reason for this delay and it's security: https://www.squarefree.com/2004/07/01/race-conditions-in-security-dialogs/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

That timeout should indeed only last the value of security.dialog_enable_delay, so 1s. If it is 5s for you, it would be nice if you write a bug report, maybe with a screen recording.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Huh, after a restart it appears to honour that setting; it's now 1s and that's an acceptable security trade-off.

I'm not 100% sure but there may have been an update that was applied by the restart.