[HTTPS-Everywhere] Errors in Firefox Error Console

[John]

In my previous post gmane mangled the path (for the file named 
"default.rulesets") I sent in the message. This, hopefully, is the correct 
one:

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


"John" <jw72253 at verizon.net> wrote in message 
news:jp435f$d3o$1 at dough.gmane.org...
> 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> 
> wrote in message 
> news:CAN-Kwu084j+oobKzFXqxQqTWr4pCR7RCP2u0vxjPfr=u_JNKRw at mail.gmail.com...
> 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. :)
>>
>>