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If you have a website that respondes to HTTPS traffic and not HTTP traffic, and you are targeting everyday Internet users, you don't deserve traffic!

Most people dont understand the difference between the cryptic labels HTTP and HTTPS. Why should they? Why force users to become experts in Internet protocols to use the Internet?

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I'm not targeting everyday internet users. As I mention in the ticket, it's our internal servers.

Hiding the label makes sense, but the way it's solved in Google Chrome has some trade-offs that some (which according to the number of tickets on the issue is more than just a few) people may not be willing to live with.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4014/ - sirn mentioned this Firefox addon in a comment, looks like a good solution.

I'd also say the iOS-like animation I propose in the ticket makes more sense.

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