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The mouseover effect on the HTTP/HTTPS toggle is very annoying. It makes it hard to ascertain which mode you're actually in while the cursor is anywhere near it.



Yeah, I clicked that thing like 6 times before I understood.

For the confused: Check the address bar, clicking it actually changes the URL of the site (to flip you into/out of secure mode)


I still don't get it. Clicking the address bar or the switch toggle does nothing for me. Manually entering http://permission.site also doesn't help


Do you maybe have HTTPS everywhere installed? Or is your browser maybe set to always choose HTTPS if possible?

(The former applies to me, and clicking the toggle does nothing for me either.)


I wonder if this is the default behavior from some UI toolkit or is it custom...




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