[HTTPS-Everywhere] Please help test an async branch

[Claudio Moretti]

Uhm, actually, as soon as I hit "send" I went on Facebook (which I didn't
check earlier).

All the background content (scripts/CSS) did not load. Upon refreshing, it
did (and the page loaded fine).

I closed and reopened Iceweasel: same thing happened again.

Let me know if you'd like me to test something else,

Claudio

On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Claudio Moretti <flyingstar16 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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