[HTTPS-Everywhere] Release 2.2 for Firefox seems to ignore default_off

Christopher Liu cmliu00151 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 17 11:30:15 PDT 2012


To whom it may concern:

The 2.2 release of HTTPS Everywhere for Firefox does not appear to
honor the default_off field in rulesets (either built-in or user).
I noticed the problem when I went to the configuration window to check
on the rulesets that were noted as broken, and I saw that they had not
been disabled as they should have been.

In this screenshot, observe that the 33Bits and 4Shared rulesets do
not show their default_off message (they are disabled because they had
been disabled previously).

http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/6262/he22defaultoffbroken1.png

The configuration window seems instead to show the value of match_rule
in the notes column. The following screenshot shows this for Stevens.
Indymedia has the same symptom.

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/5236/he22defaultoffbroken2.png

I've verified that Error Console shows no name conflicts / parsing
failures for my user rulesets, nor any other error obviously caused by
HTTPS Everywhere. I looked in the default.rulesets file and saw that
the default_off fields were present.
I am using Firefox 14.0.1 for Windows, and HTTPS Everywhere was
updated from version 2.1. The problem did not occur in any previous
version.

If you are unable to reproduce this, please explain where I should
begin troubleshooting. Thank you for your time and help.

C. Liu

P.S. Expect me to send at least one email to the
https-everywhere-rules list within the next couple days ... I know
we're all in a hurry now that 3.0 is coming soon ...




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