[HTTPS-Everywhere] Firefox Mobile

[Peter Eckersley]

Revision: "seems to work" is optimistic.  A lot of pages seem broken,
including about:addons, which is needed for disabling the add on :/

On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 01:06:32AM -0700, Peter Eckersley wrote:
> I just tried playing around with this; it seems to work, except that as you
> noted a lot of the rulesets are catastrophically incompatible with the
> "mobile" versions of sites.  That includes both Google Search and Wikipedia,
> which break completely.
> 
> So a Firefox Mobile for Android port would either require different rulesets,
> a fake desktop User Agent, or perhaps some hybrid of the two (fake the UA
> whenever a ruleset is active unless the ruleset says not to?)
> 
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 11:28:54AM -0500, Russell Golden wrote:
> > I've modified the install.rdf for HTTPS Everywhere 2.1 and repackaged
> > it for testing on Firefox Mobile for Android 14.0. It *seems* to work,
> > but I don't know how efficiently. I tested it on libreoffice.org,
> > 7chan.org, drupal.org, and barnesandnoble.com (the PC site. you'll be
> > redirected to the mobile site and have to click a link at the bottom
> > to test it properly.)
> > 
> > Russell Golden
> > Fedora Project Contributor
> > niveusluna at niveusluna.org
> > (972) 836-7128
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Peter Eckersley                            pde at eff.org
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