[HTTPS-Everywhere] Errors in Firefox Error Console

[John]

Do I understand you correctly in that rules built into this extension by the 
developers get put in the one file named "default.rulesets", which appears 
in the following folder:

%appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\abcd1234.default\extensions\https-everywhere at eff.org\chrome\content\rules

Whereas rules that are created by individual users for use with this 
extension get put into the following folder:

%appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\abcd1234.default\HTTPSEverywhereUserRules

If that is true, then it is possible that the duplicates were created by 
another exension called HTTPS Finder. It appears as if the rules in this 
folder are put into separate files with their names like, for example, 
"winpcap.xml"? This particular example is in fact one of those that I do get 
an error message about. As a matter of fact HTTPS Everywhere reports the 
error of having found the Winpcap rule three times, and I can see the 
presence of these in that HTTPSEverywhereUserRules folder:

Winpcap.xml, Winpcap-1.xml, Winpcap-2.xml, Winpcap-3.xml

This is just one of the many instances of duplicates that your extension 
reports having found. This may be what I am seeing and it does appear 
consistent with these occurrences.

Let me ask you a related question. I am not sure how you come about deciding 
which rules to include, but if you have already included a rule for a 
particular site and if another rule is created for this site and put into 
HTTPSEverywhereUserRules folder, would you expect to see the duplicate error 
message?

If my inference here is correct, is there any reason I cannot simply delete 
the duplicate files that were put in HTTPSEverywhereUserRules, like these:

Winpcap-1.xml, Winpcap-2.xml, Winpcap-3.xml

Thank you.


"Colonel Graff" <graffatcolmingov at gmail.com> 
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It depends on the duplicate rule names in specific. Also, check your
%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\(profile
name)\HTTPSEverywhereUserRules directory for any possible rules you
may have written and placed there for collisions.

If you are concerned about privacy for whatever reason, feel free to
send me the error console output and I'll look into it. As for making
the browser run at peak efficiency, those messages in the error
console shouldn't affect that. Having too many add-ons installed will.
Thanks for the notice though.

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 5:21 PM, John 
<jw72253 at verizon.net> wrote:
> Hello. If there is a different place where this information should be 
> given,
> please advise. I have HTTPS-Everywhere (version 2.0.5) installed in 
> Firefox
> 12.0 on a Windows OS. When I start Firefox and immediately open the Error
> Console, I can see numerous errors related to HTTPS Everywhere like so:
> "Error: found duplicate rule name XYZExample in file...". I really have no
> idea why there would be duplicates.
>
> It seems to me that these should be corrected, and I want to bring them to
> the developer's attention. Is this the right place to post the errors? I
> would very much like for these errors to go away so that my browser runs 
> at
> peak efficiency. Thank you. :)
>
>
>
>
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