Reviews for HTTPS Everywhere
HTTPS Everywhere by EFF Technologists
Review by Sergey Ivanov
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
2,132 reviews
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- by Firefox user 17049815, a day agoRated 5 out of 5
- by 5draonw, a day agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 17047153, 3 days agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Eduard, 3 days agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Joe Merkel, 4 days agoRated 5 out of 5This is useful addon but Firefox recently get same function.
- by Firefox user 17046099, 4 days agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Dennis Canfield, 7 days agoRated 5 out of 5
- by KΛoZ 2 ʒ, 9 days agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Lucas, 10 days agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 16157369, 11 days agoRated 5 out of 5This is useful addon but Firefox recently get same function. So it is not need install this addon.
- by Tiago Egas Costa, 14 days agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 16536228, 16 days agoRated 1 out of 5HTTPS Everywhere would not honor my HTTP-only white-listed sites, so I was being interrupted several times a day to tell it, again, to allow that site through. I disabled it with no relief, and finally removed it. I am still being interrupted. If I disable or remove an extension, I expect it to remove its unwanted effects.
- by flylightning, 17 days agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 16290179, 18 days agoRated 5 out of 5
- by idit, 20 days agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 13467239, 20 days agoRated 5 out of 5Hey devveloper, is this addon obsolete with new HTTP feature of Firefox 92?
- by BELGRADIO, 21 days agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 17021271, 21 days agoRated 5 out of 5
- by PsiLance, 23 days agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 14301971, 23 days agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 17016566, 24 days agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 16983733, a month agoRated 5 out of 5
- by folgoris, a month agoRated 5 out of 5