[tor-bugs] #14045 [EFF-HTTPS Everywhere]: Use Firefox SDK

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#14045: Use Firefox SDK
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 Reporter:  Marnes                |          Owner:
     Type:  enhancement           |         Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                |      Milestone:
Component:  EFF-HTTPS Everywhere  |        Version:
 Keywords:  sdk                   |  Actual Points:
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 Current versions of HTTPSE (4.0.2) don't seem to use the add-on SDK. The
 SDK provides modules for toolbar buttons (soon with a text overlay option
 too, for hit counters), non-restartability, preference/data storage, etc.
 Using the SDK makes add-ons uniform and more familiar to users, as well as
 more compatible with new releases of Firefox and easier to
 develop/maintain.

 Site-specific preferences like user-disabled rules are currently stored in
 about:config under a new key for each rule:
 extensions.https_everywhere.rule_toggle.9gag (partial) boolean false
 This in particular creates a big mess of little entries in about:config
 that probably don't get removed and just create bloat in prefs.js. One
 improvement would be to store these site-specific entries in a single JSON
 object string in a single key. An even better improvement would be use the
 SDK's storage module, avoiding about:config altogether.

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