Hello @thegreatGreenstar, you're requesting that Steam become more ambiguous than it currently is, making this an anti-feature request.
As a side note, this issue tracker is intended for issues specific to the Steam for Linux client. Steam support where you were looking before is the right place for your feedback to reach the larger Steam support team.
Nothing extracted yet.
Disclaimer:
As noted in the title, this issue is upstream. I could not find a GitHub repository for just a general "steam client" by valve, and Steam support for the client doesn't contain a relevant sector (https://help.steampowered.com/en/wizard/HelpWithSteam)
Therefore, this is reported here.
Issue:
Web browser home page under "in-game" settings currently defaults to
http://www.google.comThis should not be the case.
We likely are still internally connecting to https, which is why this isn't a security issue, but we still need to either hide such or display properly.
We should always attempt https connection to the homepage. So (assuming we aren't doing so already), we should attempt
https://www.google.comfirst.Proposed solution:
The proposal I make thus is that this setting changes to exclude the protocol so the default becomes simply
www.google.comWhat can then be done is by default an attempt at https to the homepage is made. If https homepage connection is successful, access till changed by user ALWAYS is attempted over https. If unsuccessful, every connection attempts https then fallbacks to http if https is unavailable. We should of course respect HSTS preload and the like here as well