[HTTPS-Everywhere] HTTPS Everywhere 3.3 is released

[Yan Zhu]

On Jul 29, 2013 6:53 PM, "Daniel Kahn Gillmor" <dkg at fifthhorseman.net>
wrote:
>
> On 07/27/2013 02:39 PM, Micah Lee wrote:
>
> > If you're using HTTPS Everywhere 3.3 pre-Firefox 23:
> > 2664 rules are on by default
> > 371 rules are off by default
> >
> > If you're using HTTPS Everywhere 3.3 post-Firefox 23:
> > 1910 rules are on by default
> > 1125 rules are off by default
>
> the git commit 874fc9b230a08ed85d6d140b3b871f50f2bab835 suggests that
> the test is actually being made based on the version number of firefox.
>
> It seems like it would make more sense to test the current value of  the
> security.mixed_content.block_active_content preference, which exists
> since firefox 18 [0]
>
> I've been running earlier versions of iceweasel with
> security.mixed_content.block_active_content set to true since version 18
> came out.
>
> wouldn't testing by feature instead of testing by version make more sense?
>

That does seem reasonable. Micah, I can volunteer to make a patch for this
tonight.

> Thanks for all your work on https-everywhere!  It's really useful.
>
> Regards,
>
>         --dkg
>
> [0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62178
>
>
>
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