Bug 1261182

Summary:	enable doesn't work once disabled via HTTPS Everywhere menu
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Russell Golden <niveusluna>
Component:	mozilla-https-everywhere	Assignee:	Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	23	CC:	niveusluna, robatino
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Description Russell Golden 2015-09-08 19:42:29 UTC

HTTPS Everywhere, if disabled via the button menu, will not re-enable through the button menu.

The cure seems to be to open about:config, and change the preference manually.

This bug does not seem to exist on Windows.

Tested on Fedora 22 with SeaMonkey, without and with a fresh profile.

Comment 1 Andre Robatino 2015-09-08 20:11:21 UTC

As requested in https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-15186 , I checked using mozilla-https-everywhere-5.1.1-1.fc22.noarch and firefox-40.0.3-1.fc22.x86_64, and the bug still exists with a fresh Firefox profile. BTW, I'm guessing the about:config preference you're talking about is extensions.https_everywhere.globalEnabled, since enabling it manually works after restarting the browser (but not immediately, as the button menu normally would).

Comment 2 Russell Golden 2015-09-08 20:25:40 UTC

Yes, that's the one. The pop-up menu said it was enabled after toggling that preference, but the icon did not change back to its normal color. I suppose I should've tested more thoroughly.

I can't imagine why this would work fine on Windows, but have issues on other platforms. HTTPS Everywhere contains no executable binaries or libraries, only javascript, XUL, and rules in SQLite format.

I'll forward this upstream.

Comment 3 Andre Robatino 2015-09-09 10:21:06 UTC

I think you want the Status to be ASSIGNED rather than VERIFIED (which would indicate you already had a bug fix)?

Comment 4 Russell Golden 2015-09-11 16:02:14 UTC

My mistake. I assumed "verified" meant "able to reproduce; verified as a bug." Status changed.

Comment 5 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski 2016-11-21 12:58:22 UTC

Works for me in Firefox 50 on Fedora 25. Please test the F23 build: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-1f3ae23d36

Comment 6 Andre Robatino 2016-11-21 14:58:53 UTC

Works for me with mozilla-https-everywhere-5.1.4-1.fc25.noarch and firefox-49.0.2-1.fc25.x86_64 on Fedora 25 (I seem to remember having noticed this being fixed a while ago, but forgot to report back). Also works with mozilla-https-everywhere-5.1.9-1.fc24.noarch and firefox-50.0-1.fc24.i686 on Fedora 24. Unfortunately, I don't have a F23 machine anymore to test on, sorry.

Comment 7 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski 2016-11-21 15:53:30 UTC

Thanks for testing. I'll close this for now. If it's still happening on F23, anyone is free to reopen.