Questions tagged [https-everywhere]

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Chrome adds weird HTTPS:1 header to all requests

I've been getting a lot of weird errors on websites that relate to HTTPS. These sites works great in FF and IE, but fail to load in Chrome. It appears that though I'm requesting an unsecured URL (http), Google Chrome adds an extra header HTTPS:1 to…
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Where are HTTPS Everywhere rules stored in Google Chrome?

I am using Google Chrome on Windows 7. I've installed HTTPS Everywhere extension and I want to add my own custom rule. According to this document it should be stored in a HTTPSEverywhereUserRules directory somewhere on my disk. Unfortunately I…
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How to redirect YouTube's videos URL (googlevideo.com) from HTTPS to https automatically?

I am using FireFox on Linux and I want to redirect HTTP URLs in YouTube videos to HTTPS. YouTube’s videos are from googlevideo.com so I want to use HTTPS instead of…
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Repeating Chrome extension error "failed to redirect"

Occasionally, when opening a wikipedia page I get this type of error in Chrome: Warning: This extension failed to redirect a network request to http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Lymphoma because another extension (HTTPS Everywhere) redirected it to…
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Is Zscalar's HTTPS Everywhere for IE affiliated with EFF?

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has a tool called HTTPS Everywhere for Firefox, Chrome and Opera. But they don't list Internet Explorer. There is a company called Zscalar that provides HTTPS Everywhere for Internet Explorer. I can't determine if…
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HTTPS Everywhere 0.9.1 makes firefox really slow

I'm running firefox 3.6.12 on mac os x 10.6.5. I started using HTTPS Everywhere and firefox became almost unusably slow. It started with some websites loading slowly, which I could imagine is a result of using https. But then even pages that were…
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HTTPS Everywhere Exclusion when blocking all unencrypted requests

I am using HTTPS Everywhere in Chrome to only allow encrypted browsing. However, I have some sites that run on the local intranet which are not capable of doing https. Is it possible to add exclusions or a whitelist manually while using the "block…
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How to get SSL Observatory to use Tor?

I just downloaded HTTPS Everywhere and it's running great. However, I want to enable it all going through Tor (as much as it can via the configuration dialogue). However, that option is greyed out. I have the tor browser, what would I do to get this…
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Firefox 27 wants to use HTTPS everywhere

I've got a weird problem with my Firefox 27.0.1: Literally any webpage I want to visit is automatically requested via HTTPS, and that means I constantly get "Untrusted Connection" warnings - see first image below. I am forced to either give up or…
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How to uninstall https everywhere from Firefox

I can't find anywhere to uninstall https everywhere. It's not in the list under Tools. Please tell me the secret. I am using FF on Ubuntu 10.10.
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Website not opening because of HTTPS Everywhere. How do I fix the issue?

I was trying to open http://cbseacademic.nic.in/ in Firefox (90.0.2 (64-bit)) and Chrome (Version 92.0.4515.107 (Official Build) (64-bit)) in my Windows 10 laptop. In Firefox, I got this error: The connection has timed out The server at…
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https everywhere user rule doesn't work if there are bundled rules for the same site

I tried creating a user rule for a website for which the extension has also bundled rules (which I did disable first), but my rule is not picked up by the extension. The rule code, if that would help:
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How do I get back a small HTTPS Everywhere icon in the Firefox toolbar?

With an upgrade just now, the HTTPS Everywhere icon is now roughly twice the height (and width) that it used to be. The result of this is a much thicker gray bar all the way around the browser toolbar, because none of the other controls are this…
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