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

[Ryan Fugger]

Ok, what's happening then is that there are no rules being applied on the
current page. Certainly the icon isn't necessary in that case.

The best thing I think would be to copy adblock and similar plugins: have
an item in the main drop-down menu for controlling settings for the the
current page, and move global settings to the add-on options page.

Imagine if every add-on put its icon in the location bar? I need that space
to see the page title, as well as hit the FF readability icon. HTTPS
Everywhere just isn't important enough to me on a page-by-page basis to
warrant using that space. I'm sure there's a Mozilla add-on guideline
document somewhere that would agree with me :)
On Feb 15, 2014 1:52 PM, "Yan Zhu" <yan at eff.org> wrote:

> 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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