[HTTPS-Everywhere] Feature request: option to disable icon in location bar in Android

[Yan Zhu]

Hi Ryan! Thanks for the feedback. I too was concerned about the lack of
UI space on mobile when I put the icon in the URL bar.

You might be hitting some bugs, but what is supposed to happen with the
menu that pops up is:

1. The menu shows a list of rules that could have been applied in
loading the current page. The checkbox state indicates whether a rule
was on or off. (Some rules are disabled by default because they usually
cause sites to break, but sometimes users can deal with the breakage.)

2. After the user toggles a checkbox and clicks "Apply", the rule gets
turned on/off globally.

3. The new state of the ruleset should persist; if you click on the menu
again, things should look different than they were before.


While I was testing this, everything worked as expected 95% of the time.
Once in a while, the menu wouldn't populate at all even when there were
applicable rulesets, but this was fixed by reloading the page.

I would like to keep this feature because there are a lot of cases where
a site breaks because of a particular ruleset; it's useful for debugging
purposes for the user to see which rules were applied, and it's better
to let them disable single rules rather than the entire extension. In
fact, for users who are contributing new rulesets or fixing broken ones,
this is probably crucial.

I'm open to suggestions about other places to put it though, especially
if multiple people find that it clutters up the UI. I have no problems
on my Galaxy Nexus though.

-Yan

On 02/15/2014 12:47 PM, Ryan Fugger wrote:
> I would like to be able to remove the HTTPS Everywhere icon in the
> location bar in Android (version 3.5android.0).  It clutters the
> interface where there is other important functionality that I need to
> access. 
> 
> Further, I would recommend having this icon removed by default, or even
> removed as a feature completely.  How often does the user need access to
> this menu?  (I am not even clear what this menu is for --
> "Enable/disable rules: apply changes"?  Which rules (global? this site
> only?), which changes?  When I click "Apply changes", the page reloads,
> but when I again select the menu, it is exactly the same -- no
> notification what has happened, if anything; no way to tell whether the
> rules in question are now enabled or disabled; no way to know whether
> the action, whatever it is supposed to accomplish, was effective.  This
> feature should be in the usual options page of the add-on.  UI space on
> android is too precious to waste on slightly faster access to a
> rarely-used rules toggle.
> 
> Thanks for making this product.  I hope I can help improve it.
> 
> Ryan
> 
> 
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