[HTTPS-Everywhere] HTTPS Everywhere RPM on Fedora and EPEL not working - feedback wanted

Peter Eckersley pde at eff.org
Mon Apr 30 11:22:40 PDT 2012


If you can confirm that 2.0.1 worked correctly in Fedora, I'm going to say
that I suspect the NoScript code changes that we merged while fixing this:

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5477

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 10:19:53AM -0500, Russell Golden wrote:
> Hello. I just tested HTTPS Everywhere 2.0.2 and 2.0.3 in RPM form on
> Fedora 16, using Firefox 11.0 and 12.0, and on RHEL6 Server with
> Firefox 10.0.4. It doesn't seem to be doing anything at all. It works
> fine on my CentOS6 install with Firefox 10.0.4, and on Windows with
> Firefox 12.0, so I don't know what's going on.
> 
> When I install the XPI directly from the EFF website, it seems to work fine.
> 
> Perhaps it's checking for rules in the user's profile? When installed
> via RPM, the files go into /usr/share/mozilla/<UUID>, which obviously
> will not work if the rules are being searched for in the user's
> profile directory.
> 
> Russell Golden
> Fedora Project Contributor
> niveusluna at niveusluna.org
> (972) 836-7128
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