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How do I remove website encryption?

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Firefox has taken it upon itself to encrypt facebook and msn/live/hotmail and i cannot remove it. It gave me the "RISK" error when i went to the site, i added exception, it still encrypted!!!

Firefox has taken it upon itself to encrypt facebook and msn/live/hotmail and i cannot remove it. It gave me the "RISK" error when i went to the site, i added exception, it still encrypted!!!

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Firefox doesn't automatically encrypt any websites, it loads whatever the user types in the Location Bar or whatever is in a saved bookmark.

Any chance that you have the HTTPS Everywhere addon installed?

https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere

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Some sites like Facebook have a setting to force a secure connection.

You can look at this link on how to disable forcing a secure connection in Facebook.