[HTTPS-Everywhere] HTTPS-Everywhere 1.0.0 for Firefox causing Google glitch

[Mr. Everfluxx]

It turns out that I had "Google Search" disabled in my HTTPS-Everywhere
1.0.0 settings:
https://twitpic.com/61s8od

After re-enabling "Google Search" (and restarting Firefox), I get the
following behaviour:
http://www.screencast.com/t/U6IzxJyAyNtq

Please note that I access the Google home page at
http://www.google.it/webhp?sourceid=navclient-ff by clicking on the Google
Toolbar "Google" button.


2011/8/6 Maxim Nazarenko <nz.phone at mail.ru>

> Got it! http://www.google.it/webhp?sourceid=navclient-ff is NOT
> redirected (as of current git version). So I can confirm this bug on
> development at FF5.0. After some mediation over
> src\chrome\content\rules\Google.xml I found two relevant piece of
> code:
>
> 65 <rule from="^http://(www\.)?google\.com/webhp"
> 66          to="https://encrypted.google.com/webhp"/>
>
> and
>
> 136 <rule from="^http://
> (www\.)?google\.(fr|nl|it|pl|ru|bg|pt|ro|hr|fi|no)/?$"
> 137          to="https://encrypted.google.com/webhp?hl=$2" />
>
> So, both http://www.google.COM/webhp?sourceid=navclient-ff and
> http://www.google.it/ are redirected, but
> http://www.google.it/webhp?sourceid=navclient-ff is not. It looks like
> rules for all local Google domains should be modified to handle this
> situation.
>
> ^http://(www\.)?google\.(fr|nl|it|pl|ru|bg|pt|ro|hr|fi|no)/?(webhp.*)?$
> seems to match http://www.google.it/webhp?sourceid=navclient-ff , so
> it might be the fix ( I not very good with regexps).
>
> Best regards,
> Maxim Nazarenko
>
> P.S. Is it possible to pack lines 59-81 into one expression?
>
> On 5 August 2011 17:06, Mr. Everfluxx <everfluxx at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Maxim,
> >
> > I don't know what to say, except that:
> >
> > 1. The glitch in Google Instant manifested itself right after
> > HTTPS-Everywhere auto-updated to 1.0.0;
> > 2. The screencast you saw was taken with the extension installed and
> active;
> > 3. After disabling the extension, the glitch disappeared;
> > 4. If I re-enable the extension, the glitch reappears;
> > 5. I didn't test with Firefox 5, because I still use Firefox 3.6.18 for
> > add-on compatibility reasons.
> >
> > Please let me know if you need further info. Ciao.
> >
> >
> > 2011/8/6 Maxim Nazarenko <nz.phone at mail.ru>
> >>
> >> The starting address in the webcast is HTTP://www.google.it/...
> >> "Current" git version at FF5 redirects http://www.google.it to
> >> httpS://encrypted.google.com/webhp?hl=it . Also, I don't experience
> >> with this bug.
> >>
> >> Best reagrds,
> >> Maxim Nazarenko
> >>
> >> On 5 August 2011 15:04, Mr. Everfluxx <everfluxx at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Hello, it appears that the HTTPS-Everywhere 1.0.0 Firefox extension is
> >> > causing a glitch in Googe Instant.
> >> >
> >> > As detailed in the following screen-cast, the first click on a result
> >> > link
> >> > causes the current SERP to refresh:
> >> > http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cXjhohr4G
> >> >
> >> > This happened in Firefox 3.6.18 with Google Instant on.
> >> >
> >> >
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> >> >
> >> >
> >
> >
>
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