Ok, what's happening then is that there are no rules being applied on the current page. Certainly the icon isn't necessary in that case.
The best thing I think would be to copy adblock and similar plugins: have an item in the main drop-down menu for controlling settings for the the current page, and move global settings to the add-on options page. Imagine if every add-on put its icon in the location bar? I need that space to see the page title, as well as hit the FF readability icon. HTTPS Everywhere just isn't important enough to me on a page-by-page basis to warrant using that space. I'm sure there's a Mozilla add-on guideline document somewhere that would agree with me :) On Feb 15, 2014 1:52 PM, "Yan Zhu" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ryan! Thanks for the feedback. I too was concerned about the lack of > UI space on mobile when I put the icon in the URL bar. > > You might be hitting some bugs, but what is supposed to happen with the > menu that pops up is: > > 1. The menu shows a list of rules that could have been applied in > loading the current page. The checkbox state indicates whether a rule > was on or off. (Some rules are disabled by default because they usually > cause sites to break, but sometimes users can deal with the breakage.) > > 2. After the user toggles a checkbox and clicks "Apply", the rule gets > turned on/off globally. > > 3. The new state of the ruleset should persist; if you click on the menu > again, things should look different than they were before. > > > While I was testing this, everything worked as expected 95% of the time. > Once in a while, the menu wouldn't populate at all even when there were > applicable rulesets, but this was fixed by reloading the page. > > I would like to keep this feature because there are a lot of cases where > a site breaks because of a particular ruleset; it's useful for debugging > purposes for the user to see which rules were applied, and it's better > to let them disable single rules rather than the entire extension. In > fact, for users who are contributing new rulesets or fixing broken ones, > this is probably crucial. > > I'm open to suggestions about other places to put it though, especially > if multiple people find that it clutters up the UI. I have no problems > on my Galaxy Nexus though. > > -Yan > > On 02/15/2014 12:47 PM, Ryan Fugger wrote: > > I would like to be able to remove the HTTPS Everywhere icon in the > > location bar in Android (version 3.5android.0). It clutters the > > interface where there is other important functionality that I need to > > access. > > > > Further, I would recommend having this icon removed by default, or even > > removed as a feature completely. How often does the user need access to > > this menu? (I am not even clear what this menu is for -- > > "Enable/disable rules: apply changes"? Which rules (global? this site > > only?), which changes? When I click "Apply changes", the page reloads, > > but when I again select the menu, it is exactly the same -- no > > notification what has happened, if anything; no way to tell whether the > > rules in question are now enabled or disabled; no way to know whether > > the action, whatever it is supposed to accomplish, was effective. This > > feature should be in the usual options page of the add-on. UI space on > > android is too precious to waste on slightly faster access to a > > rarely-used rules toggle. > > > > Thanks for making this product. I hope I can help improve it. > > > > Ryan > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > HTTPS-Everywhere mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.eff.org/mailman/listinfo/https-everywhere > > > > >
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