[HTTPS-Everywhere] The context menu has landed

[Ake K.]

this 1.0.0.development.1 version doesn't redirect https?

for example: https://fr-fr.facebook.com/ not redirect to
https://www.facebook.com/

Is it a bug? or it's a feature?

On 24 June 2011 03:03, Peter Eckersley <pde at eff.org> wrote:

> The context menu code has finally landed in master.  It was rather more
> work
> than expected, but it's now mostly done.
>
> A couple of notes about it:
>
>  - this means we're now nearly ready to move huge numbers of development
> rules
>   into the stable branch.  We will have a new devel release in the next day
>   or two, and new stable releases will be branched off that.
>
>  - I'm switching to numbering development branches like 1.0.0development.1
>   rather than 1.0.0.development.1, since that's more consistent with
>   Mozilla's idea of version numbering:
>
>   https://developer.mozilla.org/en/nsIVersionComparator
>
>  - the semantics for the appearance of <securecookie>-only rules (the prime
> example
>   of which is the Facebook+ rule) in the context menu is not very good.
>   Currently these rules are only displayed if cookies were set while
> loading
>   parts of the current page.
>
>   The theoretically ideal way to do this would be to let the user toggle a
>   <securecookie> ruleset on any page where those cookies are sent, which
> would
>   probably require us to remember for each cookie whether the site tried to
>   set it securely, and to walk through the cookie store and toggle the
> secure
>   flag between "secure" and "whatever the site said".  Happy to take a
> patch
>   if anyone is up for that task ;).
>
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