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HTTP/2 for Firefox is currently under development.
HTTP/2 for Firefox is currently under development.


HTTP/2 draft support is included in routine builds of firefox, but is disabled by default. <b>To get the most up to date support you should use the nightly channel</b>.
HTTP/2 draft support is included in routine builds of firefox, enabled by default in firefox 34 and later. <b>To get the most up to date support you should use the nightly channel</b>.
 
To enable, go to about:config in the location bar and set network.http.spdy.enabled.http2draft and security.ssl.enable_alpn to true


The current implementation is of draft-12 with compression-07
The current implementation is of draft-14 with compression-09 [august 6 nightly]


Firefox will only be implementing HTTP/2 over TLS - and so far that means for https:// schemed URLs (see below for http:// with TLS support). It does enforce the protocol's >= TLS 1.1 requirement - if a server negotiates HTTP/2 with a lower TLS version it is treated as a protocol error. (there is a preference for changing that for testing purposes if you need it.)
Firefox will only be implementing HTTP/2 over TLS - and so far that means for https:// schemed URLs (see below for http:// with TLS support). It does enforce the protocol's >= TLS 1.2 requirement - if a server negotiates HTTP/2 with a lower TLS version it is treated as a protocol error. (there is a preference for changing that for testing purposes if you need it.)


This build supports basic push and continuations and both alpn and npn.
This build supports basic push and continuations and both alpn and npn.
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