[HTTPS-Everywhere] Help needed: Settings window and memory / CPU profiling

[Drake, Brian]

Hi everyone

I don’t have time to work on HTTPS Everywhere now, but I still read these
messages occasionally.

Please don’t go the same way as Mozilla, who seems determined to keep users
and their settings apart! If no one has time to implement the query idea
properly, then keep the current settings window, but make the user click
through a warning before displaying the list (the format of the warning
could be similar to about:config; the topic of the warning could be similar
to when you open a large number of tabs at once). Presumably this is not
much harder than moving the “Reset to Defaults” button to a new location.

At the very least, include a link to documentation on how these settings
are stored or instructions on alternative ways to access them.

Here are a couple of related things:

   1. Of course, the user can already perform queries. But try entering a
   query, then using the scrollbar. The list seems to disappear! Presumably
   this is because the space allowed for displaying the list is large enough
   to fit the full list, even when only part of the list is being displayed,
   due to the user entering a query. This really should be fixed.
   2. This is not important, but it would be nice for the user to be able
   to display a list of rulesets that are not at their default setting.

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Brian Drake

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 14:33 [WST (UTC+8)], Jacob Hoffman-Andrews <
jsha at eff.org> wrote:

>  Hi all,
>
> There are two important improvements I'd like to get into HTTPS Everywhere
> soon, but I have been too swamped with Let's Encrypt work to get them done.
> These would be great volunteer projects:
>
> https://github.com/EFForg/https-everywhere/issues/1771
> Settings window freezes Firefox for a long time / sometimes crashes it.
>
> My preferred fix for this is to simply remove the settings window. It
> shows all the rulesets at once, which is somewhat meaningless when we have
> 15k+ rulesets. That's also redundant with the HTTPS Everywhere Atlas. The
> one setting from that window that we probably want to keep is "Reset to
> Defaults," which should be moved into the primary window anyhow. The
> settings window is accessible through "Enable / Disable Rules" in the HTTPS
> Everywhere icon menu, *and* by clicking "Settings" from the Firefox
> Extensions page, so we'd have to pull it out in both places.
>
> The alternative is to modify the settings page so that it doesn't show any
> rulesets when it first opens, and then only loads rulesets in response to a
> query. This is more complicated to write, and there are probably still some
> queries that will load so many rulesets they will freeze the browser.
>
> [snip]
>
> Thanks,
> Jacob
>
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