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claustromaniac / httpz

Fat-free hardenable opportunistic encryption for Firefox
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/httpz/
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Where does the text come from for the page that flashes on failed HTTPS attempts? #14

Closed Gitoffthelawn closed 5 years ago

Gitoffthelawn commented 5 years ago

I'm sure you are aware that there is a page filled with messages in a large font that sometimes momentarily appears when HTTPZ unsuccessfully tries to load a page through HTTPS.

Where do those strings come from? Can we edit them somehow?

claustromaniac commented 5 years ago

That's the cosmetic issue mentioned in the readme.

Other than using a custom userChrome.css, I'm not sure if there is any easy way to edit them. I wouldn't recommend doing substantial changes to it anyway because that would affect all other instances when Firefox displays those errors. Moreover, even if you try to "fix" that issue with a custom userChrome.css, it likely won't work, because the cause would remain: the extension does not give Firefox enough time to finish loading that error page (and so it won't give it time for applying the changes from userChrome.css either).

Gitoffthelawn commented 5 years ago

Thanks. So it's the FF-generated HTTPS error page that gets interrupted while it is rendering, thus showing all the possible errors?

claustromaniac commented 5 years ago

Yup. They're not all the possible errors, though. There are others that appear as warnings and such.

Gitoffthelawn commented 5 years ago

Thank you for the details. Much appreciated. Closing now.