[HTTPS-Everywhere] HTTPS Everywhere firefox crash mystery

[Yan Zhu]

Update: several people have said that the crashes stop after disabling
SSL Observatory.

On 06/17/2014 10:24 PM, Yan Zhu 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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Yan Zhu  <yan at eff.org>, <yan at torproject.org>
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