Use Firefox SDK

Current versions of HTTPSE (4.0.2) don't seem to use the add-on SDK. The SDK provides modules for toolbar buttons (soon with a text overlay option too, for hit counters), non-restartability, preference/data storage, etc. Using the SDK makes add-ons uniform and more familiar to users, as well as more compatible with new releases of Firefox and easier to develop/maintain.

Site-specific preferences like user-disabled rules are currently stored in about:config under a new key for each rule: extensions.https_everywhere.rule_toggle.9gag (partial) boolean false This in particular creates a big mess of little entries in about:config that probably don't get removed and just create bloat in prefs.js. One improvement would be to store these site-specific entries in a single JSON object string in a single key. An even better improvement would be use the SDK's storage module, avoiding about:config altogether.

Trac:
Username: Marnes

added component::https everywhere/eff-https everywhere priority::medium reporter::Marnes resolution::invalid sdk severity::normal status::closed type::enhancement labels

The problem is that it's still not quite reliable, you get bad memory leaks.

Duplicate of https://github.com/EFForg/https-everywhere/issues/1123. We want to do this, but it's a lot of work. Feel free to take a stab at it though!

Set all open tickets without a severity to "Normal"

Trac:
Severity: N/A to Normal

HTTPS Everywhere is a WebExtension now: https://github.com/EFForg/https-everywhere/issues/1123#issuecomment-313064554

Trac:
Username: strugee
Status: new to closed
Resolution: N/A to invalid
Sponsor: N/A to N/A
Reviewer: N/A to N/A

closed

moved to tpo/applications/https-everywhere-eff#14045 (closed)