Firefox 14 introduces HTTPS search by default

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Mozilla has announced the release of Firefox 14.0.1, the latest major stable release of the popular open source web browser. This update now uses secured search via Google’s HTTPS interface by default, providing users with more security and privacy when searching the web. The browser’s “Awesome Bar” has been fitted with an auto completion mechanism for URLs which tries to guess what site a user is trying to navigate to based on their browsing history.

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