HTTPS-Everywhere is a browser extension that automatically redirects you to the HTTPS version of the website you are trying to visit. HTTPS is now mandatory for more and more websites (public sector, banks, etc.) Google and Mozilla announced their intention in their browsers (Chrome and Firefox, respectively): websites served over HTTP will be labeled as non-secure (whereas before HTTP websites used to be the norm) They also announced the end of support for the SHA1 algorithm, which is still used by some algorithms.”]
Source: https://blog.malwarebytes.com/security-world/2017/06/https-everywhere/