[HTTPS-Everywhere] 4.0dev11 slowing Firefox down

[Claudio Moretti]

On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Erik Harris <erik at eharrishome.com> wrote:

> I thought something was wrong with my Internet connection, because
> everything in Firefox suddenly slowed WAY down. It didn't seem to matter
> what server I was trying to access, they were all painfully slow. I noticed
> that Thunderbird wasn't having trouble displaying remote content quickly,
> so I loaded IE, and it had no trouble either.
>
> Back in Firefox, with about 8 tabs struggling to load, I disabled
> HTTPS-Everywhere (from the status bar icon; the extension itself is still
> enabled).  Almost immediately upon doing that, all of the tabs successfully
> loaded, and Firefox began performing normally again.
>
> I'm using 4.0.dev11 on Firefox 23.0.1 in Windows 7 x64 Pro.


I can confirm it on Debian sid x86_64 with Iceweasel 24.0b1, it's happening
to me too.. Oddly, it's not happening on Windows 8 x64 with Firefox 23.0.1
:/

Claudio
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