[HTTPS-Everywhere] Please help test an async branch

[Claudio Moretti]

Hi Jacob,

I've played with this for ~10 minutes, and it didn't do anything bad to me
:)

I've browsed a few "known" websites, and a few "unknown", with and without
rules; it looks fast (which is good) and didn't crash or hang anything
(which is even better).

Is there any specific tests you'd like me to run? I'm using my (very) old
laptop (core2duo T7300 at 2.00GHz, 2GB RAM, Debian Jessie, iceweasel
31.3.0esr-1); I'm not going to have access to my "good" laptop until
mid-January...

Thanks!

Claudio

On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 3:13 AM, Jacob Hoffman-Andrews <jsha at eff.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> The Firefox version of HTTPSE reads its rulesets from a sqlite file and
> caches them in memory. The current version does this read synchornously
> the first time a given ruleset is encountered, which has the potential
> to lock up the UI thread when disk is slow.
>
> I've got a branch going that switches to reading asynchronously from
> SQLite. To make it work I had to borrow a subtle hack from AdBlock Plus:
> If we get a request and we don't yet have the information about what to
> do with it, we redirect the request to its own URL, then suspend it.
> Once we get back data from SQLite, we result the request. The redirect
> handler fires a second time, but now we have the data cached and can
> rewrite immediately. It's a pretty tricksy change, so I'd like some help
> testing it out. Branch is here:
>
> https://github.com/EFForg/https-everywhere/compare/async?expand=1
>
> Package for testing is here, along with a signature:
>
>
> https://jacob.hoffman-andrews.com/https-everywhere-5.1.3asyncbeta-eff.xpi.html
>
> Thanks,
> Jacob
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