Reviews for HTTPS Everywhere
HTTPS Everywhere by EFF Technologists
Rated 3 out of 5
It has been great until recently, when I started experiencing severe lagging in Firefox and discovered that this extension is a memory hog.
Here's my `top` with HTTPS Everywhere enabled:
PID PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
9036 20 0 14.6g 218564 107332 S 0.0 1.3 0:25.73 WebExtensions
...and when the add-on is disabled:
PID PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
9036 20 0 8970992 199000 107204 S 0.3 1.2 0:26.00 WebExtensions
I have no idea why it needs to commit 14Gb of virtual memory, but that does not sound reasonable at all. I'll keep it switched off for now to see if the overall performance improves.
$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
Release: 20.04
Codename: focal
$ uname -a
Linux xxxxx 5.4.0-66-generic #74-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jan 27 22:54:38 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ firefox --version
Mozilla Firefox 86.0
HTTPS Everywhere Version 2021.1.27
Here's my `top` with HTTPS Everywhere enabled:
PID PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
9036 20 0 14.6g 218564 107332 S 0.0 1.3 0:25.73 WebExtensions
...and when the add-on is disabled:
PID PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
9036 20 0 8970992 199000 107204 S 0.3 1.2 0:26.00 WebExtensions
I have no idea why it needs to commit 14Gb of virtual memory, but that does not sound reasonable at all. I'll keep it switched off for now to see if the overall performance improves.
$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
Release: 20.04
Codename: focal
$ uname -a
Linux xxxxx 5.4.0-66-generic #74-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jan 27 22:54:38 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ firefox --version
Mozilla Firefox 86.0
HTTPS Everywhere Version 2021.1.27
2,043 reviews
- by Hiro, 11 hours agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Cybersecurity Expert, 4 days agoRated 5 out of 5It's a great extension and warns me when I go to HTTP sites. Recommended!
- by Firefox user 16819578, 5 days agoRated 1 out of 5
- by Firefox user 16817254, 6 days agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Sans Undertale, 8 days agoRated 2 out of 5Eh, not as good as Smart HTTPS or the HTTPS features of Firefox Desktop.
- by Siim, 9 days agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 16809850, 9 days agoRated 4 out of 5
- by Patrick Boucher, 10 days agoRated 5 out of 5
- by pelle, 10 days agoRated 5 out of 5
- by gladysberta, 12 days agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 16804069, 12 days agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Crypto415, 14 days agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Fonzie!, 15 days agoRated 5 out of 5If a site has both an http and an https version, and this add-on knows about it, it redirects you to the https version always! Also for pages that use both http and https, they make sure everything is routed through https instead!
This should be default browser behaviour IMO
@RandomReviewer1 Yes this does make a difference, with that flag ON Firefox warns you about an unsafe site, with this add-on anysite that CAN be safe WILL be safe. They do 2 very different things - by Firefox user 16796818, 15 days agoRated 5 out of 5
- by GothicWeasel, 16 days agoRated 5 out of 5
- by bordapapa, 16 days agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Socrates231, 18 days agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 16562719, 20 days agoRated 5 out of 5
- by RandomReviewer1, 21 days agoRated 5 out of 5The extension works fine but I have a question:
Does it still do anything if I enable dom.security.https_only_mode in about:config? - by humblevictory, 21 days agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Vinícius Couto, 22 days agoRated 5 out of 5
- by mikeyson94, 22 days agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Donald Brown, 23 days agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Richard B Compasso, 24 days agoRated 3 out of 5