HTTPS Everywhere support in browser
EFF has a very nice privacy enhancing add-on for Firefox/Chrome that forces the browser to use encrypted connections whenever they are available, https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere.
Having this as a standard option (of course, selectable by the user in the Settings menu) in the Sailfish browser would be an excellent way to differentiate from those not-so-privacy-friendly competing mobile operating systems. Shouldn't be that hard to have as a normal add-on either (related to question https://together.jolla.com/question/901/proposal-add-support-for-mobile-firefox-add-ons-to-the-sailfish-browser/ )
Manual install (seems to make browsing somewhat wonky including > 100% CPU usage for the browser and links not always working at all):
- Get 3.5 android (a bit less wonky than 4.0 devel :-) )
- Unzip to /home/nemo/.mozilla/mozembed/extensions/https-everywhere@eff.org
- Add following to install.rdf:
Blockquote
<em:targetApplication>
<Description>
<em:id>toolkit@mozilla.org</em:id>
<em:minVersion>17.0</em:minVersion>
<em:maxVersion>28.0</em:maxVersion>
</Description>
</em:targetApplication>
Couldn't find the correct GUID for the sailfish browser, but toolkit@mozilla.org seems to be a wildcard of some sort). Complains it's not compatible with "Nightly 23.0" otherwise
Is it possible to install the addon to the browser currently? Does the regular or the android version work in Sailfish browser?
vasavr ( 2014-02-06 01:52:01 +0200 )editi have yet to test on sailfish, but on firefox 27 for Android https everywhere works well. What FF version is sailfish browser code based on ?
c.la ( 2014-02-06 11:54:48 +0200 )editMozembed based on Firefox 26. With some trickery some addons from addons.mozilla.org apparently work (long click/open in new tab), which wouldn't work here. unzip and register manually, maybe...
pekkap ( 2014-02-06 12:22:52 +0200 )editSo 4.0development.15 doesnt work? I wonder how the stable branch or the Android version work.
It is said on their changelog that the Android version provides "Major UI changes for mobile compatibility":
https://www.eff.org/files/Changelog.txt
vasavr ( 2014-02-06 17:10:39 +0200 )editInstalled 3.5android.0 and I can confirm the add-on works.
vasavr ( 2014-02-12 09:27:53 +0200 )edit