[HTTPS-Everywhere] product support priorities

[Peter Eckersley]

Firefox and Chrome are actually more widely used amongst EFF's core
constitutency than IE, and it's our highest priority to serve that community
(who are also, I believe, the most likely people to install HTTPS Everywhere).

It also happens to generally be easier to build extensions to free/open source
browsers.  When we looked, we couldn't find documented extension APIs for IE
that would let us build HTTPS Everywhere.  It's great that Julien has been
able to find a way to do it, and hopefully that effort will eventually lead to
a robust IE port.

On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 02:04:25PM -0600, John A. Wallace wrote:
> 
> Hi. No offense, really, and I am not trying to start a flame with the
> anti-Microsoft group, but I was hoping that someone could explain to me the
> rationale behind the decision of not developing an HTTPS-Everywhere
> extension for Internet Explorer while choosing to make them for other
> browsers? I am just a mere power-user, not a developer, so maybe there is a
> technical barrier or difficulty guiding this decision?  
> 
> It seems like the opportunity to help the largest amount of people would
> take precedence, considering that IE has more users and more need for the
> additional security. Or maybe I have that idea backwards? IE is more secure
> than your target market's browsers and has lesser need in this regard? I am
> not clear on your reasoning.
> 
> Again, don't get me wrong, because I use FF sometimes too, and I have this
> extension in use when I do. Since I also use IE a great amount of the time,
> I would like to have this feature enabled while doing so with it too. My
> thoughts are purely practical in motivation.  :)
> 
> 
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