Update: several people have said that the crashes stop after disabling SSL Observatory.
On 06/17/2014 10:24 PM, Yan Zhu wrote: > Yan Zhu: >> Recently we've been getting a lot of bug reports about HTTPS Everywhere >> linked to Firefox crashes: >> * https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=999434 >> * https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/11700 >> * https://github.com/EFForg/https-everywhere/issues/262 >> >> I seem to see this happen infrequently when I use the stable release >> (3.5.1) but haven't encountered it in the development release >> (4.0dev.17), although others have. It's worth noting that some people >> are reporting crashes every day. >> >> This is at the top of my to-do list for the next release, but since I >> can't repro this bug myself, I was wondering if most people here are >> seeing this happen. In particular, it would help to know: >> >> * Whether it happens on 4.0dev.15 or later development releases. > > Also, whether it happens on 4.0dev.14 or earlier. :) > > FWIW, these reports started in mid-to-late April, which is around when > 3.5 was released. I'm fairly sure that it was caused by something in the > huge upgrade between 3.4.5 and 3.5 (diff-minus-rulesets here: > https://bug999434.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=8441689). > > Given that 3.5 is basically the same as the recent 4.0development > releases except for a smaller ruleset library, I would expect the issue > to be in at least 4.0development.15, 16, and 17. It was likely not > reported earlier because we simply don't have enough users on the > development branch. > > The transition from 4.0dev.14 to 4.0dev.15 was significant because we > switched to a sqlite db for storing the rulesets. So if the issue is in > 4.0dev.14 but not 4.0dev.15, that suggests it's related to the sqlite > migration. > >> * Whether it happens in the Tor Browser Bundle. > > >> >> Thanks, >> Yan >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > HTTPS-Everywhere mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.eff.org/mailman/listinfo/https-everywhere > -- Yan Zhu <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> Staff Technologist Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org 815 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 +1 415 436 9333 x134
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