Hi Claudio, I hadn't seen this bug report before. I agree that this is going to confuse new users and should be fixed.
-Yan On 02/15/2014 07:27 AM, Claudio Moretti wrote: > Hello everyone, > > probably this has come up already, or it was done on purpose, but after > the switch to the sqlite version, the rulesets list in "Enable/Disable > rules" is populated only after a website is visited (screenshots at the > bottom). > > I don't know how this happens, but it concerns me a bit: > > suppose we disable by default a rule (because it's partial, > mixedcontent, or by mistake); an user that is visiting that page for the > first time, might want to have HTTPS enabled even if problematic; this, > though, does not allow him/her to do so before visiting the page for the > first time, therefore defeating the primary purpose of HTTPS-E. > > To be sure this was still happening, I compiled the latest version [1] > and ran my tests against it. It's still happening. > > IMHO users might get confused about not seeing any rule or very few > rules the first time they open the rule list menu; it happened to me: I > thought for a moment there was a problem and no rules were pulled into > the extension. It took me a while to realize what was happening. > > Can we do anything about it or does it defeat the purpose of speeding > everything up, which was one of the reasons behind the migration to sqlite? > > Cheers, > > Claudio > > Screenshots: > 1) Fresh opening; first page is about:blank > http://imageshack.com/a/img706/9383/iagw.png > 2) 1st website visited: google.com <http://google.com> > http://imageshack.com/a/img811/1602/jg9s.png > 3) 2nd website visited: yahoo.com <http://yahoo.com> > http://imageshack.com/a/img401/7885/yawi.png > 4) Search "msn" while still on yahoo.com <http://yahoo.com> > http://imageshack.com/a/img829/2919/8hlm.png > 5) 3rd website visited: msn.com <http://msn.com> > http://imageshack.com/a/img89/4771/zqxx.png > 6) Search "msn" after visiting msn.com <http://msn.com> > http://imageshack.com/a/img829/7352/frqi.png > > > [1] commit db8441dc84dc5dc04250bd555b8888ec3879ba41 > Merge: 5257feb 1f743d5 > Author: Peter Eckersley <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > Date: Tue Feb 11 09:01:08 2014 -0800 > > Merge remote-tracking branch 'negres/master' > > https-everywhere-4.0development.15~pre.xpi 2078 KB 2014-02-15 > 03:05:20 PM > > > _______________________________________________ > HTTPS-Everywhere mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.eff.org/mailman/listinfo/https-everywhere >
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