hi, I'm a developer at Mozilla and I have a patch [1] that would switch
Firefox's Wikipedia search box from HTTP to HTTPS.
Who would be an appropriate technical contact at Wikimedia that I can
coordinate with? Is this a change Wikimedia would welcome? Or would the
increased SSL server load be an undue burden for Wikimedia? Just to be
clear, this change would only affect Firefox users who search Wikipedia
using Firefox's search box.
A few months ago, Mozilla switched Firefox 14 (currently in Beta) to use
Google's HTTPS search [2]. If I check in my Wikipedia patch soon, the
change would ride Firefox's Nightly, Aurora, and Beta release channels
[3] and be released to the general public in Firefox 16 (October 2012).
[1] Wikipedia HTTPS bug:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758857
[2] Google HTTPS bug:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=633773
[3] Firefox Release Calendar:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar
thanks,
Chris