[HTTPS-Everywhere] URLs in .xsession-errors

[Peter Eckersley]

This is a bug.  URL logs, to the extent that they need to exist in our beta
and development releases, should be going to the Firefox Error Console, but
not to stdout/stderr.  We also need to do be vigilant that the Error Console
isn't being logged anywhere.
 
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 02:20:51PM -0700, Seth David Schoen wrote:
> Walt Sullivan sent a note to this list asking about URLs ending
> up in the .xsession-errors file on Linux.  That's an interesting
> problem.
> 
> I think a tentative answer would be that, at least in the beta
> version, we want a lot of debugging information to be conveniently
> available so we can help fix bugs quickly.  Some of that debugging
> information might be privacy-sensitive and it might make sense to
> reduce the amount of debugging information emitted in the final
> released version of the program.
> 
> One workaround is to start Firefox from a command line in a
> terminal instead of via a desktop launcher icon.
> 
> $ firefox &
> 
> In that case, the HTTPS Everywhere errors, like other Firefox
> errors, are output into the terminal rather than saved into
> .xession-errors.  (If you don't want to see them at all, you
> can close the terminal after starting Firefox.)  If you're
> using GNOME, you could also make a "Custom Launcher" of type
> "Application in Terminal" that runs Firefox.
> 
> I think Firefox has other local-history leaks (not our fault)
> that somebody should look into.
> 
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> Seth Schoen
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