[HTTPS-Everywhere] Fwd: Firefox 4

[Colonel Graff]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Erik Harris <erik at eharrishome.com> wrote:

> On 9/20/2010 1:09 PM, Colonel Graff wrote:
>
>> I don't work on HTTPS but I know that Ffx 4beta7 has broken a lot of
>> plugins with a regression. It has to do with the CDATA tag in the plugin
>> source. This may or may not be the issue, but it's my guess. For the
>> record, I found out about it here
>>
>
> HTTPS Everywhere has been broken since 4.0 beta 2.  4.0 beta 7 hasn't been
> released yet, so a regression affecting extensions isn't really an issue
> unless they fail to fix it prior to release.  The current beta is beta 6,
> released on Sept 14th.
>
> My bad. I don't keep up with the Firefox betas but I do keep up with
Vimperator. I was working off the information there.

> check that... according to the URL you posted, the regression you mention
> has already been fixed, so it will not affect any Firefox beta, and it's not
> what caused HTTPS-Everywhere to break in beta 2.
>
> This is actually more of a problem than simply "oh, the extension doesn't
> work with a beta version, we'll fix it when 4.0 comes out." HTTPS-Everywhere
> 0.2.2 *claims* to work with the Firefox 4.0 betas and doesn't, whereas
> plenty of other extensions do not claim to be compatible but actually do
> work (using the Add-on Compatibility Reporter extension, or using one of the
> various manual hacks to make Firefox activate old extensions). If an
> extension claims not to be compatible, it's no big deal when it doesn't
> work. When it claims to be compatible, though, it should work.
>
> I reported this problem in late July on this list, and I've seen a couple
> of other people mention it since then, too. Peter said that he or Mike would
> fix it the following week, but if they've had time to fix it, it hasn't made
> it into a new release yet. :(
>
> --
>
> Erik Harris                               http://www.eHarrisHome.com
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>
> "The beliefs that you hold the most dear are the ones you should question
> the most." - Jay Novella
>
A big problem with HTTPS Everywhere, in my honest opinion is that it doesn't
allow for those of us who want to contribute to do so. I'm certain by now
that someone would have come up with a patch to fix it.
I apologize for my own confusion.
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