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

[Russell Golden]

I can confirm that 2.0.1 works fine in Fedora, using Firefox 11 and 12.

Russell Golden
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On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Peter Eckersley <pde at eff.org> wrote:
> 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
>> --
>> "We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will
>> add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your
>> culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile."
>>
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