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e.g.
www.cyanogenmod.org

supports https but so poorly that it is unusable. One should add a whitelist option.

In version 1.1 I can't see a notification if this extension has found an https version and redirects me.

Test case:
www.cyanogenmod.org

Just go to www.heise.de
My screen gets flooded with the notifications that I have been switched to https and the site doesn't load. Seems like a loop or so.

Because xmlHttpRequest follows redirects, if a site returns a 30X redirect back to the HTTP version, then the final response code is 200, and we mistakenly take this to mean that the site is available on HTTPS. This can result in redirect loops.

We should be able to use the responseURL property of the response to detect if the response has been redirected.

I've noticed 1 Chrome process using 100% CPU (from 1 core).
When killed, a pop-up shows saying "HTTPS Finder has crashed".

I haven't looked at the sources and I don't care, I've already deleted it and reported as malware.

This is a UX issue since it disrupts workflows.

When a site gets switched over to https, clicking the browser's back button will continuously redirect to the https page instead of allowing the user to navigate back.

Common scenario:

1. Type something into search engine
2. Pick a link to navigate to
3. Site redirects to https site
4. Realize you want to go back to the search engine's results and click back
5. Navigates to the HTTP site instead and get redirected to HTTPS site

The only solution I've found to this is clicking and holding the back button down to get the drop down of previous pages to select from.