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Well we can still enable it if we need it

"In conjunction with the change, we will need a command line switch and enterprise policy to revert to the older behavior for testing and legacy applications."

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If you rely on connecting your web app with a locally installed daemon (properly secured using wss and additional mutual authentication) then that's not really an option either, as you can't expect your users to know how to use command line switches. Cutting off access to wss is a big deal.

Command line switches are a bitch on OS X.

Is an about:config switch not being considered? If so I'd imagine the thinking might be "too easy to social engineer round this".

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