I visited bbc.co.uk about 20 minutes ago, and started getting requests which apparently came from the BBC asking me to allow an Apple ID SSL certificate. I wonder if this is why.
Ya, the plugin causes lots of problems. It can mangle headers on XHR to sites that aren't using https. Spent a day debugging problems that turned out to just be https everywhere.
Oh my that was it! I had been wondering about it and disabled plenty of extensions, but not this one. Also made me realize that I should use Firefox more often again...
Yup. The extension was creating a huge CPU load on my Mac. Started happening yesterday and tested each Chrome extension to find this was the one creating the issue.
I don't think this is some conspiracy or anything, they just released a new version[0] and it's possible it broke something. Also, it's still available at the EFF website[1], and if you look in the FAQ, it's not available in the Mozilla store either[2], so this may have been intentional on the part of EFF.
When I try installing it off the eff website, I get this message in Chrome: "Apps, extensions, and user scripts cannot be added from this website." No option to override or ignore the message :-/
Absolutely annoying this ability to override messages. The same issue is with expired/not authorized server certificates on Chrome. I need to copy session ids around just to trick Chrome into accessing some stupid research database. I hate nanny browsers.
I couldn't load a website last night until I disabled HTTPS everywhere. Chromium kept saying it was waiting for the extension. I guess now I know why. Are there any alternatives?
That "mixed content will be disabled" could very well have killed a lot of pages, though it's not clear to me if this would account for other issues I was seeing (apparently some sort of memory overflow in "bo map" on my graphics card/driver).
Chrome tries to use hardware acceleration features of your video card and in my experience it rarely works on Linux. If you visit about:gpu and see anything mentioning it making use of hardware acceleration, try going to settings, and search for 'hardware', and uncheck the 'use hardware acceleration when available' setting.
(Disclaimer: I know many of the people who are responsible for the related code and they get sad when I recommend things like this, but in my opinion a reliable browser is more important than WebGL occasionally working.)
Wouldn't be surprised. I just had my app removed. All it did was show you your true ip when you're using a proxy, to show how your address leaks. They banned it. Do not see how that violates any TOS..
Last night we released a Chromium update that had a critical bug that broke the browser. As soon as we discovered this we removed it from the Chrome store temporarily until we could release an update.
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And then I found this article...
[0] https://www.eff.org/files/Changelog.txt
[1] https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
[2] https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere/faq#amo
--enable-easy-off-store-extension-install
It says "item removed by author"
I saw that it updated yesterday (thanks to this awesome extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/extensions-update-...)
https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/6ZBjctvo...
Even after a window manager restart (which addressed other issues), re-enabling HTTPS Everywhere killed page-loading.
(Disclaimer: I know many of the people who are responsible for the related code and they get sad when I recommend things like this, but in my opinion a reliable browser is more important than WebGL occasionally working.)
Last night we released a Chromium update that had a critical bug that broke the browser. As soon as we discovered this we removed it from the Chrome store temporarily until we could release an update.
We just released an update that fixes this bug, and it's back in the store again: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/https-everywhere/g...