[HTTPS-Everywhere] HTTPS Everywhere firefox crash mystery

[Trishank Karthik Kuppusamy]

Yan Zhu, thanks for looking into this. If you look at my previous comment
<https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/11700#comment:6>, it seems
that 3.5.1, 4.0development.16 and 4.0development17 are all involved. I have
found Firefox crash signatures in which HTTPS Everywhere (in either one of
these versions) are involved in all reports.


On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 6:24 AM, Yan Zhu <yan at eff.org> wrote:

> Yan Zhu:
> > Recently we've been getting a lot of bug reports about HTTPS Everywhere
> > linked to Firefox crashes:
> > * https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=999434
> > * https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/11700
> > * https://github.com/EFForg/https-everywhere/issues/262
> >
> > I seem to see this happen infrequently when I use the stable release
> > (3.5.1) but haven't encountered it in the development release
> > (4.0dev.17), although others have. It's worth noting that some people
> > are reporting crashes every day.
> >
> > This is at the top of my to-do list for the next release, but since I
> > can't repro this bug myself, I was wondering if most people here are
> > seeing this happen. In particular, it would help to know:
> >
> > * Whether it happens on 4.0dev.15 or later development releases.
>
> Also, whether it happens on 4.0dev.14 or earlier. :)
>
> FWIW, these reports started in mid-to-late April, which is around when
> 3.5 was released. I'm fairly sure that it was caused by something in the
> huge upgrade between 3.4.5 and 3.5 (diff-minus-rulesets here:
> https://bug999434.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=8441689).
>
> Given that 3.5 is basically the same as the recent 4.0development
> releases except for a smaller ruleset library, I would expect the issue
> to be in at least 4.0development.15, 16, and 17. It was likely not
> reported earlier because we simply don't have enough users on the
> development branch.
>
> The transition from 4.0dev.14 to 4.0dev.15 was significant because we
> switched to a sqlite db for storing the rulesets. So if the issue is in
> 4.0dev.14 but not 4.0dev.15, that suggests it's related to the sqlite
> migration.
>
> > * Whether it happens in the Tor Browser Bundle.
>
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Yan
> >
>
>
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