[HTTPS-Everywhere] Rules not loaded until website is visited

[Yan Zhu]

Hi Claudio,

I hadn't seen this bug report before. I agree that this is going to
confuse new users and should be fixed.

-Yan

On 02/15/2014 07:27 AM, Claudio Moretti wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> probably this has come up already, or it was done on purpose, but after
> the switch to the sqlite version, the rulesets list in "Enable/Disable
> rules" is populated only after a website is visited (screenshots at the
> bottom).
> 
> I don't know how this happens, but it concerns me a bit:
> 
> suppose we disable by default a rule (because it's partial,
> mixedcontent, or by mistake); an user that is visiting that page for the
> first time, might want to have HTTPS enabled even if problematic; this,
> though, does not allow him/her to do so before visiting the page for the
> first time, therefore defeating the primary purpose of HTTPS-E.
> 
> To be sure this was still happening, I compiled the latest version [1]
> and ran my tests against it. It's still happening.
> 
> IMHO users might get confused about not seeing any rule or very few
> rules the first time they open the rule list menu; it happened to me: I
> thought for a moment there was a problem and no rules were pulled into
> the extension. It took me a while to realize what was happening.
> 
> Can we do anything about it or does it defeat the purpose of speeding
> everything up, which was one of the reasons behind the migration to sqlite?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Claudio
> 
> Screenshots:
> 1) Fresh opening; first page is about:blank
> http://imageshack.com/a/img706/9383/iagw.png
> 2) 1st website visited: google.com <http://google.com>
> http://imageshack.com/a/img811/1602/jg9s.png
> 3) 2nd website visited: yahoo.com <http://yahoo.com>
> http://imageshack.com/a/img401/7885/yawi.png
> 4) Search "msn" while still on yahoo.com <http://yahoo.com>
> http://imageshack.com/a/img829/2919/8hlm.png
> 5) 3rd website visited: msn.com <http://msn.com>
> http://imageshack.com/a/img89/4771/zqxx.png
> 6) Search "msn" after visiting msn.com <http://msn.com>
> http://imageshack.com/a/img829/7352/frqi.png
> 
> 
> [1] commit db8441dc84dc5dc04250bd555b8888ec3879ba41
> Merge: 5257feb 1f743d5
> Author: Peter Eckersley <pde at eff.org <mailto:pde at eff.org>>
> Date:   Tue Feb 11 09:01:08 2014 -0800
> 
>     Merge remote-tracking branch 'negres/master'
> 
> https-everywhere-4.0development.15~pre.xpi     2078 KB     2014-02-15  
>   03:05:20 PM
> 
> 
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