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Re: HTTPS Everywhere - redux

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From: psychonaut@nothingisreal.com (Tristan Miller)
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Subject: Re: HTTPS Everywhere - redux
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2023 10:06:00 +0200
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by: Tristan Miller - Fri, 31 Mar 2023 08:06 UTC

Greetings.

On 2022-06-11 22:27, Rufus wrote:
> I'd previously asked about alternatives to the HTTPS Everywhere add-on
> for Seamonkey, but I'm now seeing that the add-on itself is to be
> deprecated at the end of this year as more and more browsers are
> including it as base functionality/capability - I've noted that Firefox
> has already done so, and so have Brave, Chromium, Vivaldi, and Waterfox.
>
> Epic does so as well, but misses some of the add-on's capability for
> declaring exceptions. As such, I still can't get radio.garden to work
> with Epic because I can't figure out how to get it properly/completely
> registered as an exception.
>
> Is this capability also in the path ahead for Seamonkey Browser? Hope
> so...

Apologies for the much-belated reply, but have you considered the HTTPS
Always add-on? [1] It seems to offer similar functionality as HTTPS
Everywhere, but is compatible with SeaMonkey.

Regards,
Tristan

[1] https://addons.palemoon.org/addon/https-always/

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