HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol - Hypertext Transfer Protocol) is the protocol that allows us to access websites safely, this protocol seeks to improve security every day due to the data that is transferred through the network, therefore HTTP3 comes as one of the great improvements to HTTP.
HTTP3 is a protocol that will not use the traditional TCP protocol, but will make use of a new protocol called QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections) developed by Google, it is a protocol that does not require the exchange of information between the sender and receiver The package and data are encrypted by default with TLS 1.3..
HTTP 3 comes to update its previous version and is being implemented by companies like Google or Facebook. This new HTTP3 offers improvement when it comes to solving problems that we may have on the Internet network. To implement HTTP3 in Firefox , the use of Firefox Nightly is required, which is a beta version available at the following link:
Firefox nightly
We also leave you the video tutorial to activate HTTP 3 in Firefox.
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How to activate HTTPS3 in Firefox
Step 1
The first step is to check the version of Firefox from the Help menu - About Firefox:
Step 2
We access Firefox and in a new tab we enter:
about: config
Step 3
we will see the following:
Step 4
We click on "Accept the risk and continue" and in the search field enter:
network.http.http3.enabled
Step 5
As we can see, its default value is “False”, we double click on this line and the value will be set to “true”:
Step 6
This change does not require a restart of Firefox, now we will go to the following address:
https://cloudflare-quic.com/
Step 7
There we press the F12 key to access Developer Mode and we will go to the "Network" tab, reload the web page and right-click on one of the columns to activate "Protocol", with this we can see that the protocol used is HTTP3:
With this simple method we have learned to activate HTTP3 in Firefox..