[HTTPS-Everywhere] HTTPS Everywhere firefox crash mystery

[Yan Zhu]

Please test out this version with SSL Obs. on and check if there's
crashes: https://www.eff.org/files/https-everywhere-3.5.1~pre.xpi. If
not, it'll be released as 3.5.2.

(It's 3.5.1 with SSL Obs. reverted to 3.4.5)

Other changes:
  * Ruleset fixes to Mozilla, PCWorld, MacWorld, Google Books, 4chan
blog, BuzzFeed, BBC, googlecode, TechDirt, Wikia, Technology Review,
Google Translate, CDT, Science Direct
  * Fix rulesets.sqlite path, allowing global installation (Github #255)



On 06/18/2014 05:18 PM, Bill Phillips wrote:
> Yes. That seems to work. So far, at least.
> 
> I recall there were problems WRT the observatory a while back. Don't
> recall the details, however.
> 
> Well, time will tell.
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Yan Zhu <yan at eff.org
> <mailto:yan at eff.org>> wrote:
> 
>     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 <mailto:yan at eff.org>>, <yan at torproject.org
>     <mailto:yan at torproject.org>>
>     Staff Technologist
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Yan Zhu  <yan at eff.org>, <yan at torproject.org>
Staff Technologist
Electronic Frontier Foundation                  https://www.eff.org
815 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA  94109       +1 415 436 9333 x134

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