[HTTPS-Everywhere] New pref dialog broke Firefox 12 nightly

[Sujit Rao]

I just downloaded an nightly on Lion and couldn't reproduce anything,
and the javascript: URI seemed to work just fine. It could still be
useful to use inline options, especially for a Fennec version of HTTPS
Everywhere.

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Peter Eckersley <pde at eff.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 11:17:59PM -0500, Sujit Rao wrote:
> > I suspect that this has to do with new security changes with javascript:
> > URLs, which are used to open the preferences window in a way that makes it
> > resizable. It could be fixed using the new add-ons options system (
> > https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Extensions/Inline_Options), though there
> > would need to be a different UI than the <tree>, or perhaps with the
> > <prefwindow> and <prefpane> elements.
>
> By the way, let me know if you're working on this.  We'll need to decide
> whether to temporarily revert your XUL changes so that we can push a new
> development branch release without breaking FF 12 further.
>
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